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THE

jLATjE WARi

BETWEEN THE

UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN,

FROM JUNE 1812, to FEBRUARY 1315.

WRITTEN IN THE ANCIENT HISTORICAL STYLE,

BY GILBERT J. HUNT,

Author of a number of anonymous Publications, id prose and verse. ,

n The good of his couttfryxuas the pride of his heart." — Decatur's victory.
CONTAINING, ALSO, A SKETCH OF THE LATE

ALGERIJNE WAR;

J}nd the treaty concluded with the Dexj of Algiers
The Commercial Treaty with Great Britain,
and the Treaty concluded with the
Creek Aration of Indians,

NEW-YORK,
PUBLISHED AND SOLD FOR THE AUTHOR,

BY DAVID LONGWORTH,
11 Park.

X. Dessoues Printer, no. 7, Murray-st.

" 1816.""

Southern Dittrict of Jf em-Tori, «i.

BE it remembered, that on the twelfth day of Tuly, in tbe forty first year of the indepen-
dence of the United States of America, 6ILBERT J. HUNT, of the said distri«<L
fcath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as author ana
proprietor, in the words and figures following, to wit: — u The Late War between the
United States anJ Great Britain, from June 1812 to February 1815, written in the ancient
historical style, by Gilbert J. Hunt, author of a number of anonymous publications in prose
and verse.

The good of hit country was the pride of his heart. — Decatur's Victory.
Containing, also, a sketch of the late Algerine War and the Treaty concluded with the
Bey of Algiers', the Commercial Treaty with Great Britain, and the Treaty concluded
with the Creek nation of Indians."

In conformity to the act of the congress of the Jnited Stales, entitled" An act for the
encouragement of learning, by securing the cooies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the
authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned ;" and also to
an act, entitled " an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement
•f learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authirs and
proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the bene-
fits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints."

THEKON RUDD.
Slerk of the Southern District of Yew-Yoik,

PREFACE.

THE records of truth have been esteemed By
men in all ages ; but when connected with his-
tory, especially that of our own country, they
J become doubly interesting.

The work here presented to the public, 'is a

?s faithful statement of the principal facts which

took place during the Late War between the

United States and Great Britain. It was writ-

v ten not only for the author's amusement, but to

*i condense, in as concise a manner as his talents

would allow him, those prominent circumstances

which ought to live forever in the American

J? memory.

He has avoided every expression or sentiment
r that might wound the most delicate ear, and
r endeavoured throughout to inculcate the prin-
^ eiples of virtue, liberty and patriotism.^

Zealous as the author is to record whatever
jv in his opinion redounds to the honor of his be-
I loved country, he believes he has, in no instance
I

overstepped the modesty of truth, or suffered his
passions to triumph over his prudence. He has
had recourse, principally, to official documents ;
and, where these failed, to private accounts,
well authenticated. He, therefore, commits his
work to the public candour, apologising only
for any deject in the style, which lie hopes nill
not he less pleasing for being an humble imita-
tion of the oriental.

Should this effort succeed, he intends publish-
ing, in the same mode of writing, the History
of England, from the time of Julius Cesar to
the commencement of the American Revolution,
and the History of America, including the
Revolutionary war, from that period to the
commencement of this work.

G. J. HUNT,

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAOS.

CHAP. I — President's Message — Causes of the War

— Energetic Measures ■proposed li

CHAP. II — Report of the Committee — Declaration of

War. 20

CHAP. Ill-Reception of the Declaration of War in
Great Britain — her friends in America
— Caleb Strong — Hartford Convention. 28

CHAP. IV-John Henry— Elijah Parish. 29

CHAP. V — American Army — Militia — Navy — Bri-
tish Navy — Rogers' first Cruise — capture
of the U. S. brig Nautilus— removal of
aliens beyond tide-water 32

CHAP VI — Hull's expedition — he enters Canada, and
encamps at Sandwich — issues his Procla-
mation— retreats to Detroit. 36

CHAP. Vll-HulVs expedition — surrender of his army
and the whole Michigan Territory his
trial and pardon by the President — cap-
ture of Mkhilimackinack 4#

VI TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Page,

GHAP. VIII— Capture of the British frigate Gver-
riere, by the United States' frigate Con-
stitution, captain Hull — capture of the
Alert sloop of roar, by captain Porter, in
the Essex. 48

CHAP. IX — Attack on SackeWs Harbor — affair of
Ogdensburgh — British drove from St.
Regh, by the Troy militia under major
Young — the brigs Adams and Caledonia
re-captured by capt. Elliot, near fort Erie. 52

CHAP. X — Battle of Queenslown — the British Gen.

Brock killed. 56

CHAP. XI — Gen. Smythe succeeds Gen. Van Rens-
selaer— his attempt to cross the Niagara,
and failure — causes. 61

CHAP. XII — Capture of the sloop of war, Frolic of
22 guns, by the United Slates' sloop of
war Wasp of 18 guns. 64

CHAP. XIII— Capture of the British frigate Macedo-
nian, by Com. Decatur, in the frigate
United States — brig Vixen captured by
the British frigate Southampton. 67

CHAP. XIV — Affairs in the north— skirmishes— bat-
tle of Frenchtorvn, on the river Raisin —
capture of Gen. Winchester's army —
massacre of American prisoners. 72

CHAP. XV— Capture of the British frigate Java, by

the United State* frigate Constitution, 79

TABLE OF CONTENTS, Tli

Pace.
CHAP. XVI — Com. Rogers* return from a second
cruise — capture of the United States brig
Viper — the General Armstrong and a
Britishfrigate — privateering 84

CHAP. XVII — Capture and burning of Ogdensbug'i

by the British. 90

CHAP. XVIII— Capture of the Peacock of IS guns by
Ihiited States sloop of niar Hornet of IS
gu?is — reluvn of the Chesapeake from a
cruize. 93

CHAP. XIX — Capture of Little York in upper Ca.
nada — the destruction of the American
army prevented by the precaution of Gen.
Pike — his death. 98

CHAP. XX — Sketches of the History of America. 108

CHAP. XXl-Depredations in the Chesapeake — Havre-
de-Grace burnt by the British under Ad-
miral Cockburn — attack on Crany Island
— Hampton taken by the British — out-
rages. 114

CHAP. XXII— Bayard and Galatin sail for St. Pc-
tersburgh — the British compelled to aban-
don the siege of fort Meigs. \22

CHAP. XXIII — Surrender of fort George and fort
Erie to the Americans — General Brown
drives the British from before SackcWs
Harbor, 7vith great Inss — Gens. Hinder
and Chandler made prisoners at Forty
Mile Creek. 12$

Vlil TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Passt:.

CHAP. XXIV— Capture of the Chesapeake— Com.

Decatur blockaded in New-London. 129

CHAP. XXV— Capture nf Col. Boerstler and Major
Chapm, with their command — treatment
of prisoners — Major Chapm' s escape. 136

CHAP. XXVI — Capture of Fort Schlosser and Black
Rock — Gen. Dearborn resigns his com-
mand to Gen. Boyd, on account nf sick-
ness— the Six Nations declare war against
Canada. 139

CHAP. XXVII — Affairs on Lake Ontario, between
the fleets of Com. Chauncey and Sir
James Yeo. 144

CHAP. XXVIII — Affairs on Lake Champlain — pil-
lage of Pittsburgh by the British — bom-
bardment of Burlington — depredations
committed in the Chesapeake, andalmg
the coast. 147

CHAP. XXIX— Major Croghan defeats the British
and Indians, under Gen. Proctor, in their
attack on Fort Stephenson, Lower San-
dusky. 151

CHAP. XXX — British schooner Dominica, of 14
guns, captured by the privateer Decatur,
of 7 guns — U. S. brig Argus captured
by the Pelican — capture of the Boxer by
the U. S. brig Enterprise. I5f

CHAP. XXXI— Ca; Jure of the British fleet on Lake
Erie, by the American fleet under Com.
Perry. 161

TABLE OP CONTENTS. ix

Page,

CHAP. XXXII — Capture of Maiden and Detroit — the
army of Gen. Proctor retreat towards
the Moravian towns — Gen. Harrison pur-
sues them. 167

CHAP. XXXIII— Battle of the Thames— Gen. Har-
rison captures the British army under
Gen. Proctor — illumination on account
of it — news of it received in England. 1 72

CHAP. XXXIV— War with the Creek Nation of In-
dians— massacre at Fort Mimms

Georgia and Tennessee militia, under
Gen. Jackson, retaliate. 179

CHAP. XXXV— Continuation of the Creek War-
Gen Jackson's grand victory over them —
they sue for peace — a treaty is Concluded
with them. 183

CHAP. XXX VI— Plan of attack on Montreal defeated. 1 9@

CHAP. XXXVII— Newark burnt— Fort George eva-
cuated— JSiagara frontier laid waste —
Buffalo burnt. 195

CHAP. XXXVIII— Cruise of the U.S. frigate Essex,
D. Porter commander — her defence and
capture, at Valparaiso. W3

CHAP. XXXIX— Capture of the U. S.- sloop of war
Frolic, by the British frigate Orpheus —
capture of the British sl>op of war L'E-
pervier, by the Peacock, Cap. Warring-
ton— capture of the Reindeer, by the

•

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Page*

Wasp, Capt. Blakely — the Avon captured
and sunk — U. S. vessels Syren and Rat-
tlesnake captured — Admiral Cochrane de-
clares the whole American coast in a state
of blockade. 20*

CHAP. XL— Breaking vp of the cantonment at French
Mills— affair at La Cole Mill— Major
Appling captures two hundred British sea-
men— Gen. Brown captures Fort Erie —
battle of Chippana plains. 209

CH AP. XLI— Battle of Bridgewaier. 21 4

CHAP. XLII — Assault on Fort Erie, by the British,
under Gen. Drummond — Cen. Brown re-
sumes his command — sallies out of Fort
Erie against the British camp — M' Ar-
thur's expedition into Canada. 217

CHAP. XLHI— Attack on Slonington, by the British
ships of mar, which are defeated and
driven off. 222

CHAP. XLIV — Affairs in the Chesapeake — British
army move up the Patuxent — land and
maixh towards the city of Washington —
prepare themselves for battle at Bladens-
burgh. 225

CHAP. XLV — Capture of Washington— sacking of

Alexandria — death of Sir Peter Parker. 229

CHAP. XLVI — British, under Gov. Prevost, go a-
gainst Plaltsburgh — Com. M' Donough
captures the British squadron on Lake
Champlaih — 240

TABLE OP CONTENTS.

CHAP. XLVH— Battle of Pittsburgh— defeat of Sir

George Ptevost. 246

CHAP. XLVIII— ^Macfc on Baltimore, by the British
army, under Gen. Ross, and the fleet un-
der Admirals Cochrane and Cockburn. 250

CHAP. XLIX — Destruction of the privateer Gen.
Armstrong, Samuel C. Rcid, captain —
Scorpion and Tigress captured— U. S.
frigate Adams burnt — Castine — Fort
Boyer attacked — destruction of the pi*
rates at Barrataria, t.y Com. Patterson
— Gen. Jackson captures Pensacola, and
returns to New-Orleans. 25*

CHAP. L — Steam boats — Fulton — torpedoes — attempt
to blow up the Plantagemt — kidnapping
Joshua Penny.

266

CHAP. LI — Affairs in and about Kern-York, the first
commercial ci!y !n America— working on
the fortifications of Brooklyn and Hacr-
lem — capture of the British lender Eagle,
by the Yankee smack. 274

CHAP. LII — Affairs on the cc*an—priva!eer Prince
of Neufchatel — Marquis of Tweedale de-
feated in Upper Canada — capture of the
President — loss of the Sylph — cnplvre of
e tyane and the Jjevant by the Consti-
tution— capture of the St. Lawrence —
capture of the Penguin by ihe Hornet,
eoptain Biddle. 282

£11 TABLE OF CONTENTS.

pag eg.

CHAP. LIII — British fleet arrives near New-Orleans
— the Am rican flotilla captured—attacks
by the British upon the army of Gen.

Jackson. 289

CHAP. LI V— Grand Battle ofNtw-OrUans. 294

CHAP. LV— Peace. 301

Algerine War 307

Conclusion 315

Commercial Treaty. 319

Treaty with Algiers. 323

Treaty with tke Creeks. 32?

•'

THE

HISTORY

OF THE

LATE WAR,

Between the U. States and G. Britain.

CHAP. I.

Presidents Message — Causes of the War — -
Energetic Measures proposed.

1M OW it came to pass, in the one thousand
eight hundred and twelfth year of the chris-
tian era, and in the thirty and sixth year af-
ter the people of the provinces of Columbia
ha I declared themselves independent of all
the kingdoms of the earth ;

2 That in the sixth month of the same
year, on the first day of the month, the chief
Governor, whom the people had chosen to
rule over the land of Columbia ;

3 Even James, whose sur-name was
Madison, delivered a written paper* to the
Great Sanhedrim! of the people, who were
assembled together.

4 And the name of the city where the
people were gathered together was called
after the name of the chief captain of the
land of Columbia, whose fame extendeth to
the uttermost parts of the earth : albeit, he
had gone to the land of his fathers.

5 Nevertheless, the people loved him, in-
asmuch as he wrought their deliverance
from the yoke of tyranny in times past : so
they called the city Washington.

6 Now, when the written paper was re-
ceived, the doors of the chambers of the
Great Sanhedrim were closed, and a seal was
put upon every man's mouth.

7 And the counsellors of the nation, and
the wise men thereof, ordered the written
paper which James had delivered unto them
to be read aloud ; and the interpretation
thereof was in this wise :

8 Lo! the lords and the princes of the
Kingdom of Britain, in the fulness of their

* President's manifesto, f Congress.

pride and power, have trampled upon the
altar of Liberty, and violated the sanctuary
thereof :

9 Inasmuch as they hearkened not unto
the voice of moderation, when the voice of
the people of Columbia was, Peace ! peace !

10 Inasmuch as they permitted not the tall
ships of Columbia to sail in peace on the
waters of the mighty deep ; saying in their
hearts, These spoils shall be given unto the
king.

11 Inasmuch as they robbed the ships of
Columbia of the strong men that wrought
therein, and used them for their own use,
even as a man useth his ox or his ass.

12 Inasmuch as they kept the men stolen
from the ships of Columbia in bondage many
years, and caused them to fight the battles of
the king, even against their own brethren !
neither gave they unto them silver or gold,
but many stripes.

13 JN'ovv thfr men of Columbia were not
like unto the slaves of Britain ; neither
were their backs hardened unto the whip, as
were the servants of the king; therefore

tifti

they murmured, and their murmurings have
been heard.

1 4 Moreover the Council of Britain sent
forth a Decree to all the nations of the earth,
sealed with the signet of the Prince Regent,
who governed the nation in the name of the
King his father ; for, lo ! the King was pos-
sessed of an evil spirit, and his son reigned
in his stead.

1 5 For the lords of the kingdom of Britain
loved to dwell under the shadow of George
the King, and under the shadow of George
his son. ♦

16 Now this Decree of the Council of
Britain was a grievous thing, inasmuch as it
permitted not those who dealt in merchan-
dize to go whithersoever they chose, and
trade freely with all parts of the earth.

17 And it fell hard upon the people of
Columbia; for the king said unto them,
Ye shall come unto me and pay tribute,
then may ye depart to another country.

18 Now these things pleased the pirates
and the cruisers and all the sea-robbers of
Britain mishtilv, inasmuch as thev could rob

with impunity the commerce of ^Columbia,
under the cloak of British honor.

19 Furthermore, have not the servants of
the king leagued with the savages of the
wilderness, and given unto them silver and
gold, and placed the destroying engines in
their hands ?

20 Thereby stirring up the spirit of Satan
within them, that they might spill the blood
of the people of Columbia ; even the blood
of our old men, our wives,and our little ones !

21 Thus hath Britain in her heart com-
menced War against the people of Colum-
bia, whilst they have cried aloud for peace :
and when she smote them on the one cheek
they have turned unto her the other also.

22 Now, therefore, shall we the independ-
ent people of Columbia, sit down silently, as
slaves, and bow the neck to Britain ?

23 Or, shall we nobly, and like our fore-
fathers, assert our rights, and defend that
which the Lord hath given unto us, Liberty
and Independence ?

b-2

CHAP. II.

Report of the Committee — Declaration of
War.

li OW, when there was an end made of
reading the paper which James had written,
the Sanhedrim communed one with another
touching the matter.

2 And they chose certain wise men from
among them to deliberate thereon.

3 And they commanded them to go forth
from their presence, for that purpose, and
return again on the third day of the same
month.

4 Now, when the third day arrived, at the
"eleventh hour of the day, they came forth

and presented themselves before the Great
Sanhedrim of the people.

5 And the chief of the wise men, whom
they had chosen, opened his mouth and
spake unto them after this manner :

6 Behold ' day and night have we medi-
tated upon the words which James hath de-

Jivered, and we are weary withal, for our
hearts wished peace.

7 But the wickedness of the kingdom of
Great Britain, and the cruelty of the princes
thereof, towards the peaceable inhabitants of
the land of Columbia, may be likened un-
to the fierce lion, when he putteth his paw
upon the innocent lamb to devour him.

8 Nevertheless, the lamb shall not be
slain; for the Lord will be his deliverer.

9 And if, peradventure, the people of
Columbia go not out to battle against the
king, then will the manifold wrongs commit-
ted against them be increased ten-fold, and
they shall be as a mock and a bye-word
among all nations.

10 Moreover, the righteousness of your
cause shall lead you to glory, and the pillars
of your liberty shall not be shaken.

11 Therefore, say we unto you, Gird on
your swords and go forth to battle against
the king ; even against the strong powers of
Britain ; and the Lord God of Hosts be with
you.

12 Now when the great Sanhedrim of the
people heard those things which the wiso

men had uttered, they pondered them in
their minds many days, and weighed them
well.

13 Even until the seventeenth day of the
month pondered they in secret concerning
.the matter.

14 And it was so, that on the next day
they sent forth a Decree, making WAR
upon the kingdom of Great Britain, and up-
on the servants and upon the slaves thereof.

15 And the Decree was signed with the
hand writing of James, the chief Governor
of the land of Columbia.

16 After these things, the doors of the
chambers of the Sanhedrim were opened.

CHAP. III.

Reception of the Declaration of War in Great
Britain — her friends in America — Caleb
Strong — Hartford Convention.

AND it came to pass, that when the princes
awl the lords and the counsellors of Britain
saw the Decree, their wrath was kindled, and
their hearts were ready to burst with indigna-
tion.

2 For, verily, said they, this insult hath
overflowed the cup of our patience ; and now
will we chastise the impudence of these
Yankees, and the people of Columbia shall
bow before the king.

3v(Now the word Yankees was used by
the people of Britain as a term of reproach.)

4 Then will we ruic them with a rod of
iron; and they shall be, unto us, hewers of
wood and drawers of water.

5 For, verily, shall we suffer these cun-
ning Yankees to beard the mighty lion, with
half a dozen fir-built frigates, the men
whereof are but mercenary cowards, bas-
tards and outlaws ?

6 Neither durst they array themselves in
battle against the men of Britain; no! we
will sweep their stars from the face of the
waters, and their name shall be heard no
more among nations.

7 Shall the proud conquerors of Europe
not laugh to scorn the feeble efforts of a few
unorganized soldiers, undisciplined, and fresh
from the plough, the hoe, and the mattock ?

8 Yea, they shall surely fall ; for they
were not bred to fighting as were the ser-
vants of the king.

9 Their large cities, their towns, and their
villages will we burn with consuming fire.

10 Their oil, and their wheat, and their
rye, and their corn, and their barley, and
their rice, and their buckwheat, and their
oats, and their flax, and all the products of
their country will we destroy, and scatter
the remnants thereof to the four winds of
heaven.

1 1 All these things, and more, Avill we do
unto this fro ward people.
? 12 Neither shall there be found safety for
age or sex from the destroying swords of the
soldiers of the king.

13 Save in those provinces and towns
where dwell the friends of the king ; for lo !
said they, the king's friends are many.

14 These will we spare ; neither will we
hurt a hair of their heads : nor shall the sa-
vages of the wilderness stain the scalping
knife or the tomahawk with the blood of the
king's friends.

15 Now it happened about this time that
there were numbers of the inhabitants of the
country of Columbia whose hearts yearned
after the king of Britain.

16 These men were called Tories, which
signifieth, in the vernacular tongue, the blind
followers of royalty.

17 And with their false flattering words
they led astray some of the children of Co*
lumbian Liberty ; for their tongues were
smoother than oil.

18 Evil machinations entered into their
hearts, and the poison of their breath might
be likened unto the deadly Bohon Upas,

which rears its lofty branches in the barren
valley of Java.*

19 And they strove to dishearten the true
friends of the great Sanhedrim ; but they pre-
vailed not.

20 Moreover, Satan entered into the heart
of one of the governors of the east, and he
was led astray by the wickedness thereof,
even Caleb, the shittamite.f

21 Now Caleb, which in the cherokee
tongue, signifieth an ass, liked not the decree
of the great Sanhedrim, inasmuch as he fa-
vored the king of Britain ; and, though willing
to become a beast of burden, yet would not
move on account of his very great stupidity.

22 And he said unto the captains of the
hosts of the state over which he presided, Lo!
it seemeth not meet unto me that ye go forth
to battle against the king.

23 For, lo ! are not the fighting men of

* Of the existence of this wonderful tree there have been,
doubts : but the reader is referred to the relation of P. N. Fo-
ersch, who has given a satisfactory account oi it, froru his o^a
travels in its neighborhood.

f Shittamite, in the hebrew, is applied to a dissenter :— f»et-
baps it may be equally applicable here,

Britain in multitude as the sand on the sea
shore ? and shall we prevail against them ?

24 Are not the mighty ships of the king
spread over the whole face of the waters? is
not Britain the " bulwark of our religion?*'

25 Therefore, I command that ye go not
out to battle, but every man remain in his
own house.

26 And all the governors of the east lis-
tened unto the voice of Caleb, the shittamite.

27 Moreover, the angel of the Lord whis-
pered in the ear of Caleb, and spake unto
him, saying,

28 If, peradventure, thou dost refuse to
obey the laws of the land, the thing will not
be pleasant in the sight of the Lord ;

29 Inasmuch as it may cause the people to
rise up one against another, and spill the
blood of their own children.

30 And the time of warfare will be length-
ened out, and the blood of thousands will be
upon thine head.

31 And Satan spake, and said unto Caleb,
Fear not ; for if thou wilt forsake thy coun-
try, and throw off the paltry subterfuge of

Columbian Liberty, and defy the councils
of the great Sanhedrim,

32 Then shall thy name be proclaimed
with the sound of the trumpet throughout all
the earth ; and thou shalt be a prince and a
ruler over this people.

33 Now the smooth words of Satan tickled
Caleb mightily, and he hearkened unto the
counsel of the wicked one :

34 For the good counsel given unto him
was as water thrown upon a rock.

3.5 But when the chief governor and the
great Sanhedrim of the people saw the wick-
edness of Caleb, their hearts were moved
with pity toward him and his followers : yea,
even those who had made a convention at the
little town of Hartford.

36 Neither doth the scribe desire to dwell
upon the wickedness which came into the vil-
lage of Hartford, the signification of the
name whereof, in the vernacular tongue, ap-
peareth not.

37 For the meddling therewith is as the
green pool of unclean waters, when a man
casteth a stone therein.

CHAP. IV.

John Henry — Elijah Parish.

.LET the children of Columbia beware of
false prophets, which come in sheep's clo-
thing ; for it is written, Ye shall know them
by their fruits.

2 J\Tow it came to pass, that a certain man,
whose sir-name was Henry, came before
James, the chief governor, and opened his
mouth, and spake unto him, saying,

3 Lo ! if thou wilt give unto me two score
and ten thousand pieces of silver, then will I
unfold unto thee the witchcraft of Britain,
that thereby thy nation may not be caught in
her snares.

4 And James said unto him, Verily, for the
good of my country, I will do this thing.

5 And immediately the man Henry open-
ed his mouth, a second time, and said,

6 Lo ! the lords' and the counsellors of
Britain have made a covenant with me, and

have promised me many pieces of gold if I
would make a league with the provinces of
ihe east, that they might favor the king ; and
long and faithfully have I labored in their
cause.

7 But they deceived me, even as they
would deceive the people of Columbia ; for
their promises are as the idle wind that pass-
eth by, which no man regardeth.

8 And, when he had gotten the silver into
his own hands, he departed to the land of the
Gauls, where he remaineth even until this
day.

9 Nevertheless, the people profited much
thereby ; inasmuch as it put them upon the
watch, and they guarded themselves against
the evil accordingly.

10 He that longeth after the interpreta-
tion of the deeds of Henry, let hirn go and
make inquiry of those who acted with him,
the ministers of the Hartford Convention.

11 Now, there was a certain hypocrite
whose name was Elijah, and he was a
false prophet in the east, and led astray those
of little understanding : moreover, he was

an hireling, and preached for the sake of fil-
thy lucre.

12 And he rose up and called himself a
preacher of the gospel, and his words were
smooth, and the people marvelled at him ;

13 But he profaned the temple of the
Lord, and he strove to lead his disciples into
the wrong way.

14 And many wise men turned their
backs against him ; nevertheless he repented
not of his sins unto this day.

15 Neither did the people, as Darius the
Mede did unto the prophet Daniel, cast him
into the den of lions, that they might see
whether the royal beasts would disdain to
devour him.

16 But they were rejoiced that power was
not given unto him to command fire to come
down from heaven to consume the friends of
tjie great Sanhedrim.

g 2

CHAP. V.

American A rmy — Militia — Navy — British
Navy~~ Rogers' first Cruise — capture of the
U. S. brig Nautilus — removal of aliens be-
yond tide-water.

A HE whole host of the people of Columbia,
who had been trained to war, being number-
ed, was about seven thousand fighting men.*

2 Neither were they assembled together ;
but they were extended from the north to
the south, about three thousand miles.f

3 But the husbandmen, who lived under
their own fig-tre^, and lifted the arm in de-
fence of their own homes, were more than
seven hundred thousand, all mighty men of
valor.

4 Now the armies of the king of Britain,
are they not numbered and written in the
book of Hume, the scribe ? is not their name
a terror to all nations ?

* Standing army.

) From District of Maine to Mobile bay and New-Orleans,

5 Moreover, the number of the strong
ships of the peaceable inhabitants of Colum-
bia, that moved on the waters of the deep,
carrying therein the destroying engines,
which vomited their thunders, was about one
score; besides a handful of "cock-boats;"
with " a bit of striped bunting at their mast-
head."

6 But the number of the fighting vessels of
Britain was about one thousand one score
and one, which bore the royal cross.

7 And the men of war of Britain were ar-
rayed in their might against the people of the
land of Columbia.

8 Nevertheless, it came to pass, that about
this time a strong ship of t^e United Slates,
called the President, commanded by a skillful
man whose name was Rogers,*

9 Sailed towards the island of Britain, and
went nigh unto it, and made captive numbers
of the vessels of the people of Britain, in
their own waters ; after which she return-
ed in safety to the land of Columbia.

10 And the people gave much praise to

* Com. Rogers.

Kogers, for it was a cunYiing thing ; inas-
much as he saved many ships that were rich-
ly laden, so that they fell not into the
hands of the people of Britain.

1 1 Moreover, it happened about the fif-
teenth day of the seventh month, in the same
year in which the decree of the great San-
hedrim was issued, that a certain vessel of
the states of Columbia was environed round
about by a multitude of the ships of the
king ;

12 And the captain thereof was strait-
ened, and he looked around him, and strove
to escape :

13 But he was entrapped, and fell a prey
to the vessels of the king ; howbeit, the cap-
tain, whose name was Crane, tarnished not
his honor thereby.

14 And the name of the vessel of the
United States was called Nautilus.

15 Now, about this time, there was a law
sent forth from the great Sanhedrim, com-
manding all servants and subjects of the
king of Britain forthwith to depart beyond
the swellings of the waters of the great
deep; even two score miles,.

I
35

16 And they did so ; and their friends
from whom they were compelled to flee,
mourned for them many days.

17 After this they could do no evil, on
the which their hearts were bent continually.

J 8 And when they arrived in the back
parts of the far extended provinces of Co-
lumbia, the husbandmen opened their
mouths, and the dumb beasts looked at
them with astonishment.

19 Neither doth the scribe marvel at their
astonishment; for were not the servants of
the king astonished, out of measure, at the
brave men of Columbia.

CHAP. VI.

HulVs expedition — Tie enters Canada, and en-
camps at Sandwich — issues his Proclama-
tion— retreats to Detroit.

IN OW it was known throughout the land
of Columbia that war was declared against
the kingdom of Britain.

2 And to a certain chief captain called
William, whose sur-name was Hull, was
given in trust a band of more than two
thousand chosen men, to go forth to battle
in the north.*

3 Now Hull was a man well stricken in
years, and he had been a captain in the
host of Columbia, in the days that tried men's
souls; even in the days of Washington.

4 Therefore, when he appeared in the

* Canada.

presence of the great Sanhedrim,* they
were pleased with his countenance, and put
much faith in him.

5 Moreover, he was a governor in the
north, f and a man of great wealth.

6 And, now when he arrived with his
army hard by the Miami of the Lakes, he gat
him a vessel and placed therein those things
which were appertaining unto the preserva-
tion of the lives of the sick and the maimed.

7 But, in an evil hour, the vessel was en-
snared, near unto a strong hold,J beside a ri-
ver, called in the language of the Gauls,
Detroit.

8 And the army of the provinces of Co-
lumbia suffered much thereby.

9 {Nevertheless, on the twelfth of the se-
venth month, about the fourth watch of the
night, William with his whole host crossed
the river which is called Detroit.

10 And he eneamped his men round about

* Gen. Hull had been to Washington and obtained an appoint-
ment previous to the war.

t Michigan territory, J Maldera.

the town of Sandwich in the province of the
king.

1 1 From this place, he sent forth a Pro-
clamation, which the great Sanhedrim had
prepared for him ; and the wisdom thereof
appeareth even unto this day.

12 But if a man's ass falleth into a ditch,
shall the master suffer thereby ? if injury can
be prevented, shall we not rather with our
might endeavor to help him ?

13 Now in the proclamation which Hull
published abroad, he invited the people of
the province of Canada to join themselves to
the host of Columbia, who were come to
drive the servants ol the king from their
borders.

14 And it came to pass, that a great multi-
tude flocked to the banners of the great
Sanhedrim.

15 Nevertheless, they knew not that they
were to be entrapt.

16 However it was so, that William de-
parted from the province of the king, and
again passed the river.

17 And when the husbandmen of the pro-
vince of Canada, who had joined the standard

of Columbia, learned those things, they wept
bitterly ; for they were left behind.

18 After this William secured himself in
the strong hold of Detroit ; and the eyes of
the men and the women of Columbia were
fixed upon him.

19 And the expectation thereof may be
likened unto a man who hath watered well
his vineyard.

CHAP. VII.

Hull's expedition — surrender of his army and
the whole Michigan Territory — his trial
and pardon by the President — capture of
Michilimackinack.

JN OW the host of the king were few in num-
bers ; nevertheless, they came in battle array
against the strong hold of William.

2 And when he beheld them from afar, he
was afraid; his knees smote one against ano-
ther, and his heart sunk within him; for,
lo! the savages of the wilderness appeared
amongst thern.

3 And a rumor went throughout the
camp of Columbia, and it bore hard upon
William.

4 Inasmuch as they said the wickedness
of his heart was bent on giving up the strong
hold to the servants of the king.

5 Howbeit he was not taxed with drinA
ing of the strong waters of Jamaica ; whk h
when they enter into the head of a man, de s-

troy his reason and make him appear like
unto one who hath lost his senses.

6 And when the charge against William
was made known unto the soldiers of Colum-
bia, they were grieved much, for they were
brave men, and feared nought.

7 So the officers communed one wTith
another touching the thing: but they wist
not what to do.*

8 And they fain would have done violence
unto William, that they might have been en-
abled to pour forth their thunders against
the approaching host of Britain ; which he
had forbidden to be done.

9 Moreover, the names of these valiant
men, who weie compelled to weep before
the cowardice of William, are they not re-
corded in the bosom of every friend of Co-
lumbian liberty ?f

10 And it was about the sixteenth of the
eighth month when the servants of the king
appeared before the strong hold of Detroit.

11 And the name of the chief captain of

* The officers present were not sufficiently numerous to war-
rant any opposition to the weakness of the general.

\ Miller, Cass, M'Aitlmr, Brush, FindJey, Sic.

the province of Canada, that came against
the strong hold, was Brock, whose whole
force was about seven hundred soldiers of the
king, and as many savages.

12 Now when the soldiers of Canada were
distant about a furlong, moving towards the
strong hold ; even when the destroying en-
gines were ready to utter their thunders,
and smite them to the earth,

13 William, whose heart failed him, com-
manded the valiant men of Columbia to bow
down before the servants of the Icing ;

14 And he ordered them to yield up the
destructive weapons which they held in
their hands.

15 Neither could they appear in battle
against the king again in many days.

16 Moreover, the cowardice of his heart
caused him to make a league with the slaves
of the king, in the which he gave unto them
the whole territory over which the people
had entrusted him to preside ; notwithstand-
ing it appertained not unto him.

17 And the balls of solid iron, and the
black dust, and the destroying engines be-
came a prey unto the men of Britain.

3 8 Now there had followed after Wil

liam a band of brave men from the west,*
and the name of their captain was Brush ;
and he had in trust the bread and the wine
which were to support the army of Columbia.

19 And, lest they should fall into the
hands of the savages, a captain, whose name
was Vanhorn, was ordered to go forth and
meet him.

20 And the band that went forth, was en-
trapped at Brownstown, by the cunning sa-
vages, that laid wait for them, and the killed
and the wounded of Columbia were about
two score.

21 And again there were sent from the
camp of William more than five hundred
men to go to the aid of Brush

22 And the name of the chief captain
thereof, was Miller ;f and the captain whom
he ordered to go before him was called
SneUing.%

23 Now Snelling was a valiant man, and
strove hard against the men of Britain, and
the savages; even until Miller the chief cap-
tain arrived.

Ohio. f Col. Miller. \ Col. J. Suelli»g.

24 And the place, which is called Magna-
go, lieth about an hundred furlongs distant
from Detroit.

25 Now the battle waxed hot ; and the
host of Miller pressed hard upon the savages
and upon the men of Britain.

26 Inasmuch as they were compelled to
flee before the arms of Columbia : and Mil-
ler gat great honor thereby.

27 And there fell of the men of Britain
that day an hundred two score and ten.

28 Nevertheless, in the league which Wil-
liam had made, he had included Miller, and
all the brave captains and men of war of Co-
lumbia that were nigh the place.

29 Now, therefore, whether it was coward-
ice outright, in William, or whether he be-
came treacherous for filthy lucre's sake, ap-
peareth not unto the scribe.*

•* To palliate Hull's conduct it has been urged, that he sur-
rendered his army to prevent the effusion of blood : but let us
ask those charitable pallialors what they would have said of Gen.
Jackson, if, when a mighty and a blood-thirsty enemy appeared
before his battlements, in quest of beauty and booty, he had
given up N. Orleans and ceded the Louisiana territory to him ?
or of the gallant Croghan, when left to defend fort Stephenson
with a handful of men and a single six pounder ? — These pallia-

30 But the effect thereof to the nation,
was as a man having a millstone cast about
his neck.

31 So William and his whole army fell
into the hands of the servants of the king.

32 But as it is written in the book of Koi-
omon, There is a time for all things, so it

came to pass, afterwards, that William was
called to account for his evil deeds.

33 And he was examined before the law-
ful tribunal of his country, and they were all
valiant warriors and chief captains in the
land of Columbia.

34 Howbeit, when the council* had weigh-
ed well the matter, they declared him#wi%,
and ordered that he should suffer death.

35 Nevertheless, they recommended him
to the mercy of James, the chief governor of
the land of Columbia.

36 Saying, Lo ! the wickedness of the
man appeareth unto us as the noon day ;

tors might even have wished that tbe heroes of Erie and Cham-
plain had felt the same qualms of conscience : — but they ought
to know that it was such noble deeds that stopt the " effusion «f
blood."

. * Court-martial.

37 But the infirmities of his age have
weakened his understanding, therefore let his
gray hairs go down into the grave in silence.

38 And when James heard the words of
the council, his heart melted as wax before
the fire.

39 And he said, Lo ! ye have done that
which seemeth right unto me.

40 Nevertheless, as my soul hopeth for
mercy, for this thing William shall not sure-
ly die ; but his name shall be blotted out
from ihe list of the brave.

41 For it appeareth unto me that he was
possessed of an evil spirit, and wist not what
he did.

42 Not withstanding this, William thanked
him not, but added insult to cowardice.*

43 So WTilliam was ordered to depart to
the land which lieth in the east,f where he
remaineth unto this day ; and his name shall
be no more spoken of with reverence
amongst men.

44 Moreover, there was another evil which
fell upon the people of the United States,

Hull's address to the public. f Massachusetts,

about the time the host of Columbia crossed
the river Detroit.

45 For, lo ! the strong hold of Michili-
mackinack, which lieth nigh unto the Lakes
of Michigan and Huron fell an easy prey un-
to the men of Britain, and their red brethren ;

46 Howbeit, their numbers were more
than four-fold greater than the men of Co-
lumbia, who knew not of the war.

47 Nevertheless, the people of the United
States, even the great Sanhedrim, were not
disheartened ; neither were they afraid ; for
they had counted the cost, and were pre-
pared to meet the evil.

CHAP. VIII.

Capture of the British frigate Guerriere, by
the United States' frigate Constitution, cap-
tain Hull — capture of the Alert sloop of
war, by the Essex, captain Porter.

IN OW it came to pass, on the nineteenth
day of the eighth month, that one of the tall
ships of Columbia, called the Constitution,
commanded by Isaac whose sur-name was
Hull,

2 Having spread her snowy wings on the
bosom of the mighty deep, beheld from afar
one of the fighting ships of Britain bearing
the royal cross.

3 And the name of the ship was called, in
the language of the French, Guerriere,*
which stgnifieth a warrior, and Dacres was
the captain thereof.

4 Now when Dacres beheld the ship of
Columbia his eyes sparkled with joy, for he
had defied the vessels of Columbia.

* The Guerriere was taken from the French bj the British*-

5 And he spake unto his officers and hiv
men that were under him, saying,

6 Let every man be at his post, and ere
the glass hath passed the third part of an
hour, her stripes shall cease to sweep the air
of heaven.

7 And the yawning deep shall open its
mouth to receive the enemies of the king.

8 And the men of Dacres shouted aloud,
and drank of the strong waters of Jamaica,
which make men mad ; moreover they mixed
the black dust therewith.

9 Now when Isaac drew nigh unto the
king's ship the people of Columbia shouted.

10 And Isaac bore down upon the strong
ship of the king.

11 About this time they put the lighted
match to the black dust of the destroying en-
gines, and it was like unto a clap of thunder.

12 Moreover, the fire and smoke issued
out of the mouths of the engines in abun-
dance, so as to darken the air, and they were
overshadowed by the means thereof.

13 (Now the black dust was not known
an ng the ancients ; even Solomon, in alibis
wisdom, knew it not)

hi And the battle continued with tre-

mendous roar until about the space of half
an hour, when its noises ceased.

15 But when the clouds of smoke had
passed away, behold ! the mighty Guerriere
lay a sinking wreck upon the face of the
waters.

16 The shadow of hope passed over her
as a dream; and most reluctantly was she
compelled to strike the lion's red cross to
the eagle of Columbia.

17 Whilst the Constitution, like Sha-
drach in the fiery furnace, filled her white
sails and passed along as though nothing had
happened unto her.

18 .Now the slain and the maimed of the
king that day were five score and five.

19 And the loss of the people of Colum-
bia, was seven slain and seven wounded.

20 After this Isaac caused a burning coal
to be placed in the ship that she might be
consumed, and the flames thereof mounted
towards the heavens.

21 And the great Sanhedrim honored
Isaac with great honor, and the people were
rejoiced in him, and they forgat the t
which had hefallen them in the north.

22 But when the lorxis and counsel!

Britain heard those things they believed
them not ; it was as the bitterness of gall to
their souls ; for the pride of Britain was fixed
upon her navy ; it was the apple of her eye.

23 Now, as one evil followeth after ano-
ther to the sons of men, so it happened that,
in the same month, a certain strong ship of
the United States, even the Essex, the name
of the captain whereof, was Porter, sailed in
search of the vessels of the king, on the wa-
ters of the ocean.

24 And in process of time, she fell upon
one of the ships of Britain, called the Alert,
and made spoil thereof to the people of Co-
lumbia.

CHAP. IX.

Attack on SackeWs Harbor — affair of Og~.
densburgh — British drove from St. Regis,
by the Troy militia under major Young —
the brigs Adams and Caledonia re-captured
by capU Elliot, near fort Erie.

JM OW the movements of the enemy were
as the motion of a whirlwind, which passeth
from the north to the south, and from the east
to the west.

2 And they sought to encorppass the
whole land of Columbia round about.

3 So it came to pass that a number of the
armed vessels of the king, that sailed on the
great lake which is called Ontario, moved
toward Sacketl's Harbor.

4 And they demanded certain vessels of
the people of the United States, which they
had taken from the king, to be given up un-
to them, saying :

5 Verily, if ye give them not up, then will

we lay a contribution upon you, and ye shall
pay tribute.

6 But Bellinger, the chief captain of the
Harbor, refused.

7 And when the vessels of the king were
hard by, a certain captain whose name was
Woolsey, set one of the engines to work.

8 And the vessels of the king also opened
the mouths of their engines and shot into the
camp of Columbia.

9 And the number of the husbandmen of
the United States that flocked to the defence
of the Harbor was about three thousand.

10 And when the men of war of Britain
saw that the people of Columbia were not
afraid, and that they knew to use the des-
troying engines, they fled to their strong
hold, in the province of the king, which is
called Kingston.

1 1 Howbeit, some of their ships received
much damage from the balls of heavy metal,
that smote Ihem, from the slrons: hold.

12 Now as the malice of the nations in-
creased one against another, so did the evils
increase which surrounded them.

1 3 And it came to pass on the fourth day
of the tenth month, there came a thousand

•

fighting men of Britain to lay waste the vil-
lage of Ogdensburg, which lieth hard by the
river St. Lawrence.

14 Howbeit, the people of Columbia per-
mitted them not to come unto the land; but
compelled them to depart in haste.

] 5 Nigh unto this place is a village which
is called St. Regis, where the soldiers of Bri-
tain had come to fix a strong hold, on the
borders of Columbia.

16 But a brave captain, whose name was
Young, with a band of men, called militia,
went against them.

17 And he sat the destroying engines to
work, and the noise thereof sounded in their
ears ; so they were discomfitted and fled in
confusion.

18 And the number of the servants of the
king, made captive that day, was two score
men, with the instruments of destruction in
their hands.

19 Moreover, one of the banners of the
king, even the red-cross standard of Britain,
fell into the hands of Young.

20 On the eighth day of the same month,
a captain, of Columbia, whose name was El-
liot, a cunning man, took a chosen band, who

came from the sea-coast, and put them in
boats.

21 And he departed with them from Nia-
gara towards the strong hold of Erie, even
in the dead of the night.

22 And he came unawares upon the two
vessels which were covenanted to the king,
with the army at Detroit.

23 And the name of the vessels were the
Adams and the Caledonia, and Elliot cap-
tured them the same night.

24 However, the nest day, as Elliot and
his men were returning with their prizes, the
men of Britain, who were upon the other
shore, let the destroying engines loose upon
them from their strong hold ;

25 And a few of the people of Columbia
were slain ; moreover, it was here the valiant
Cuylcr fell ; a ball of heavy metal struck him
as he was coming on a fleet horse toward the
water's edge.

26 Now Cuyler was a man well beloved ;
and the officers and men of Columbia grieved
for him many days.

E 2

CHAR X.

Battle of Queenstown — the British General
Brock killed.

AND it came to pass on the morning of the
thirteenth day of the tenth month,

2 That Stephen, a chief captain of Colum-
bia, sur-named Van Rensselaer, essayed to
cross the river which is called Niagara, with
his whole army.

3 Now the river lieth between the Lake
Erie and the Lake Ontario.

4 And the noise of the waters of the river
is louder than the roarings of the forest;
yea, it is like unto the rushing of mighty
armies to battle.

5 And the movement of the falls thereof
bringeth the people from all parts of the
earth to behold it.*

6 Ho Stephen gat his soldiers into the
boats that were prepared for them, and they

* Niagara falls.

■

moved upon the rough waters of the river,
toward the strong hold of Queenslown.

7 And when the men of Britain saw them
approach, they opened the engines upon
them, from Fort George, Erie, and Black
Mock.

8 Nevertheless, they persevered ; although
the strength of the waters, which were un-
governable, separated the army.

9 However, Solomon,* a captain and a
kinsman of Stephen, reached the shore with
the men under his command, in all about two
hundred.

10 And he put the army in battle array,
in a valley, and moved up towards the strong
hold ; and Brock was the chief captain of the
host of Britain.

1 1 And from their strong hold they shot,
with their mischievous engines, balls of lead
in abundance ; and it was as a shower of
hail upon the people of Columbia ;

12 For there was no turning to the right
hand nor to the left for safety.

1 3 And Solomon and his men fought hard ;
and they rushed into the hottest of the battle.

* Col. Solomon Van Rensselaer.

14 And a captain of the United State?,
whose name was Chrystie, followed close after
them, with a chosen band of brave men.

15 So they pushed forward to the strong
hold, and drove the men of Britain before
them, like sheep, and smote them hip and
thigh, with great slaughter ; and Brock, their
chief captain, was among the slain.

16 And Chrystie, and the valiant Wool,
and Ogilvie, and the host of Columbia gat in-
to the hold, and the army of the king fled :
and Chrystie was wounded in the palm of his
hand.

17 But Solomon was sorely wounded, so
that his strength tailed him, and he went not
into the hold.

18 And that day there fell of the servants
of the king many valiant men, even those
who were called invincibles, and had gained
great honor in Egypt.

19 Nevertheless, the same day a mighty
host of savages and soldiers of the king,*
came forth again to battle, and rushed upon
the people of the United States, and drove
them from the strong hold of Queenstown.

* Reinforcements from Fort George and Cnippawa.

20 For, lo ! Stephen, the chief captain,
could not prevail on the host of militia, on
the other side of the river, to cross over.

21 So the army of Columbia moved down
towards the river to cross over again, that
they might escape.

22 But when they came down to the water
side, lo ! they were deceived, for there was
not a boat to convey them to a place of safe-
ty ; so they became captives to the men of
Britain.

23 Now the men of Britain treated the
prisoners kindly, and showed much tender-
ness towards them; for which the people
blessed them.

24 And the killed and wounded of the
host of Columbia, were an hundred two score
and ten.

25 And the prisoners that fell into the
hands of the king, were about seven hun-
dred.

26 Nevertheless, in a letter which Ste-
phen sent to Henry* the chief captain of the
army of the north, he gave great honor un-

* Maj. Gen. Dearboxn.

to the captains who fought under him that
day.

27 And the names of the valiant men, who
distinguished themselves in the battle, were
Wadsworlh, Van Rensselaer, Scott, Chrystie,
Fenwick, Fink, Gibson, and many other brave
men of war.

til

CHAP. XL

Gen. Smyth succeeds Gen. Van Rensselaer —
his attempt to cross the Niagara, and failure
— causes.

A.FTER these things, on the same day in
which the letter was written, Stephen resign-
ed the command of his army to a certain
chief captain whose name was Alexander.*

2 Now Alexander was a man well skilled
in the arts of warfare.

3 And he made a proclamation to the
young men of the state of New-York,
wherein he invited them to go forth from
their homes, and join the host under him.

4 And the words thereof pleased the
young men, so that they went in numbers
and joined Alexander; on the shores of the
river which is called the Niagara.

5 Rut here the hand of the scribe trem-

* Brig. Gen. Smvth.

bleth, his tongue faltereth, his heart sicken-
eth, and he would fain blot from his memory
that which truth compels him to record ; for
he is a living witness thereof.

6 Alas, there was an evil spirit moving in
gecret, and in bye-places throughout the land
of Columbia; and it was the offspring of ty-
ranny, the cup-bearer of royalty; Toryism.

7 And lo ! its viper-like insidiousness
crept into the ears of the unwary husband-
men.

8 For the sect of the tories whispered
unto them, saying, Lo! the laws of the land
cannot compel you to step over the borders
of the United States.

9 Moreover, said they, the fierceness of
the savages is terrible as the wild tyger, and
their numbers as the trees of the forest.

10 And the veteran soldiers of the king,
who have been' bred to war, are spread in
multitudes over the province of Canada.

11 Therefore, if ye go orer to fight
against them, ye will be as sheep going to
the slaughter, and ye shall never again re-
turn to the house of your fathers, for ye
will be destroyed.

12 Even as the wickedness of the war,

.«..

which the great Sanhedrim have made,
against the king, cannot prosper, so shall ye
fall a prey to the folly thereof.

13 And it came to pass when the husband-
men heard these smooth words, many of them
were bewildered in their minds, and knew
not what to do.

14 So when the young men who had
flocked to the banners of Alexander, came
down to the water's edge, to go into the
boats, they thought of the words which the
enemies of Columbia had spoken unto them;
and they refused to cross over :

15 Neither could the persuasions of the
chief captain prevail on them all to go
into the boats ; and those whose hearts were
willing were not enough.

16 So he was obliged to suffer them to re-
turn to their homes ; for his expectations
were blasted.

17 And the army of Columbia went into
winter quarters; for the earth was covered
with snow, and the waters of the great lakes
were congealed.

CHAP. XII.

Capture of the sloop of War Frolic, of 22
guns, by the United Stales' sloop of war
Wasp, of IS guns.

JN OW the strong ships of war of the king-
dom of Britain were spread over the whole
face of the waters of the ocean.

2 But few, indeed, were the vessels of Co-
lumbia, that were fighting ships and carried
the destroying engines.

3 Howsoever, early in the morning of the
eighteenth day of the tenth month, about the
sixth hour, being on the sabbath day,

4 One of the ships of Columbia, called the
Wasp, the name of the captain whereof was
Jones, who was a valiant man, discovered
afar off one of the strong ships of the
king.

5 Now the ship of Britain was mightier
than the ship of Columbia, and she was call-

**r*^

* %

ed the Frolic, and the captain's name was
Whinycates.

6 And they began to utter their thunders
about the eleventh hour of the day, and the
noises continued for more than the space of
half an hour.

7 When the Wasp, falling upon the Fro-
lic, and getting entangled therewith, the mea
struggled together; and the mariners of Co-
lumbia overpowered the mariners of Bri-
tain.

8 So it came to pass, that the Frolic be-
came captive to the ship of Columbia.

9 And the slain and the wounded of the
king's ship were about four score.

10 And the children of Columbia lost, in
all, about half a score : howbeit, there was
much damage done to both vessels.

1 1 Nevertheless, about this time, a mighty
ship of Britain, called the Poictiers, came
upon the vessels, which were in a defence-
less situation, and took thern both, and com-
manded them to go to the island of the king
which is called Bermuda.

12 However, the people #f Columbia
were pleased with the noble conduct of

Jones, and for his valiant acts they gave
him a sword of curious workmanship.

13 Moreover, while he remained at Ber-
muda, the inhabitants, the servants of the
king, treated him kindly ; and showed much
respect for him and his officers that were
made captive.

CHAP. XIII.

Capture of the British frigate Macedonian, by
Com. Decatur, in the frigate United States
— brig Vixen captured by the British fri-
gate Southampton.

JN OW it happened on the twenty-fifth day
of the tenth month, in the first year of the
war, that a certain strong ship of Britain,
that had prepared herself to fight a ship of
Columbia, appeared upon the waters of the
deep.

2 And she was commanded by a valiant
captain whose name was Carden, and the
name of the ship was the Macedonian.

3 And on the same day she met one of
the strong ships of Columbia, the name of
the captain whereof was Decatur, and the
vessel was called the United States.

4 Now Decatur was a man who had ne-
ver known fear; and the good of his country
was the pride of his heart.

F 2

5 And when he came towards the ves-
sel of the king, he used no entreaty with
his men, for they all loved him, and the
point of his finger was as the Word of his
month.

6 So when the ships came nigh unto
one another, their thunders were tremen-
dous, and the smoke thereof was as a black
cloud.

7 Nevertheless, in the space of about nine-
ty minutes, the strong ship of Britain struck
her red flag to the simple stripes of Columbia*

8 Now the Macedonian was a new ship,
and she gat much damage.

9 But the United States, like the com-
panions of Shadrach, moved unhurt upon the
waters ; nay, even her wings were not singed.

10 And the slain and the wounded, of the
ship of the king, were five score and four.

11 And there fell of the people of Colum-
bia five who were slain outright, and there
were seven maimed.

12 Moreover the ship of Britain had se-
ven of the stolen men of Columbia therein,
who were compelled to fight against their
brethren ; and two of them were slain in
battle.

13 And when Carden came on board the
ship of Columbia, he bowed his bead;, and
offered to put his sword, of curious work-
manship, into the hands of Decatur.

14 Bui Decatur said unto him, Nay; thou
hast defended thy ship like a valiant man;
therefore, keep thy sword, but receive my
hand.

15 So they sat down and drank wine to-
gether, for the spirits of brave men mingle
even in the time of warfare.

16 And after they had eaten and drank,
Carden opened his mouth, for he was trou-
bled in his mind, and spake unto Decatur,
saying :

17 Lo ! if this thing which hath happened
be known unto the king, that one of the ves-
sels of Britain hath struck her flag, and be-
come captive to a vessel of the United
States, what shall be done unto the captain
thereof? for such a thing hath not been
heard of among the nations of the earth.

18 And Decatur answered, and spake un-
to Carden, saying, Verily thou art deceived,
neither will harm happen unto thee.

19 For, lo! it came to pass, about three-
score days ago, that one of the btrong ships

of the king, thy master, the name whereof
was called Guerriere, fell an easy prey to
one of the strong ships of Columbia; and
they burnt her with fire upon the wa-
ters.

20 Now when Carden heard these words,
his heart leaped with joy ; for he dreaded the
frowns of the king, and he was glad that he
stood not alone in the thing.

21 After this, in the eighteen hundred and
thirteenth year of the christian era, on the
first day of the first month of the same year,
and on the sixth day of the week,

22 The ship United States and the ship
Macedonian came into the haven of New-
York, having passed a certain dangerous
place called Hell-gate : and there was a heavy
fog that day.

23 And there were great rejoicings in the
city, and throughout the whole land of Co-
lumbia.

24 Moreover, there was a sumptuous din-
ner given to Isaac, Decatur, and Jones, in
honor of their valiant deeds ; and the number
of the guests were about five hundred.

25 And the inhabitants of New- York
made a great feast, on the ninth day of the

month, for the brave mariners that wrought
in the ship of Columbia.

26 And they became merry with the
drinking of wine ; after which they depart-
ed and went unto a house of mirth and
gaiety.*

27 Now, it is written in the words of So-
lomon, whose wisdom hath not been excel-
led, that, there is a time to weep, and a
time to rejoice.

28 Not many days after those things, it
came to pass, that the hearts of the lords and
the counsellors of Britain were rejoiced.

29 For a certain mighty ship, called the
Southampton, fell upon a smaller vessel of
the United States, f and made capture there-
of unto the king.

30 But the storm arose, and the sea beat
upon the vessels, and they were cast away,
and they parted asunder, upon an island
which lieth far to the south, and both vessels
were lost.

* Theatre.

t United States' brig Vixen, 12 guns, G. W.Recd com-
wander.

CHAP. XIV.

Affairs in the north — skirmishes— battle of
Jfrenchtown, on the river Raisin — capture
of Gen. Winchester's army — massacre of
American prisoners.

JN OW it came to pass, that the wickedness
of Britain had roused up the spirit of Satan
in the savages of the forest, in the north and
in the west.

2 And the tomahawk and the scalping
knife were raised against the people of Co-
lumbia on the borders of the great lakes.

3 So the people sought after a valiant
man to go against the savages and the men of
Britain.

4 And they pitched upon a certain go-
vernor of the west, whose name was Harri-
son,* and the great Sanhedrim made him a
chief captain of the army.

* Maj. Geo., W. H. Harrison, Governor of Ohio.

b Moreover, he was beloved by the peo-
ple, and a mighty host of husbandmen were
ready to follow after him.

6 And Harrison rested his army at the
strong hold of Meigs, nigh the Miami Rapids,
which lieth in the way journeying towards
the strong hold of Maiden, which is in the
province of the king ; whither he intended to
go forth in the pleasant season of the year.

7 And Winchester* was another chief cap-
tain that went against the savages.

8 Now the savages had been a sore thorn
in the side of the people of Columbia.

9 They had assailed the hold which is call-
ed after a chief captain whose name was
Dearborn, and their numbers overpowered
it, and they used deceit, and put to death
the men and the women and the infants that
were found in the hold, after they had be-
come captives, save about half a score.

10 And their bowlings along the dark for-
est were more terrible than the wild w7olf,
and their murderous cunning more dreadful
than the prowling tiger.

11 And the servants of the king gave

* Brig. Gen. Winchester.

them to drink of the strong wafers of Jamai-
ca, well knowing that they loved it as they
did their own souls,

12 Yet these were the allies, the mess-
mates, the companions of the slaves of Bri-
tain ! hired assassins !

13 However, about this time there were
many brave captains of the people of the
United States that went against them.

14 Even Russel, and Hopkins, and Tupper,
and Campbell, and fVilliams, and others, who
drove the red savages before them.

1/5 And burnt their villages,* and laid
waste their habitations, and slew many of
them; for it is written in the holy scripture,
Blood for blood !

16 Nevertheless, they treated the savage
prisoners who fell into their hands kindly ;
neither suffered they the people to buffet
them.

17 But it came to pass, on the twenty-se-
cond day of the first month, a mighty horde
of savages and servants of the king, fell up-
on the army of Winchester the chief captain.

18 And it was about the dawning of the

* Towns on the Wabash.

day, when the destructive engines opened
their fires.

19 And the place where the battle was
fought was called, in the vernacular tongue,
Frenchtown, which lieth on the south side of
the River Raisin, nigh unto Lake Erie.

20 Now the name of the chief captain of
the army of Britain was Proctor, and he
proved himself a wicked man, and his name
is despised even unto this day.

21 Howsoever, the battle waxed hot, and
they began to rush one upon another with
great violence.

22 And the small band of Columbia
fought desperately, and the slaughter was
dreadful ; and the pure snow of heaven was
sprinkled and stained with the biood of
men !

23 Nevertheless, the people of the United
States were overcome, and their chief cap-
tain made prisoner.

94 So when Winchester found he was
made captive, and that there was no hope
for the rest of the men under his command,
he made a league with Proctor, the chief cap-
tain of the host of the king.

25 In the which Proctor agreed to vouch-

safe protection to the captive men of Colum-
bia, from the wrath of the savages, whom he
had inflamed.

26 Now the number of the men of Co-
lumbia that fell into their hands that day,
were about five hundred ; and the slain and
wounded about an hundred two score and ten.

27 And the number of the savages and the
men of Britain who fell in battle that day
were many.

28 And Proctor removed the captives unto
the strong hold of Maiden, which lieth upon
Ihe opposite side of the river, in the province
of the king.

29 But, in the cruelty of his heart, he left
the sick, the wounded, and the dying to the
mercy of the savages of the wilderness !

30 Jn this thing he transgressed the word
of a man, which is evil in the sight of the
Lord.

31 Oh! for a veil, to hide in utter dark-
ness the horrid deeds of that awful day, that
they might not be handed down to the chil-
dren of men, in the times to come.

32 Lo ! early in the morning of the next
day, ere the sun had risen, the work of death
began I

33 Behold the sullen savage, with deadly
rage, drag forth the shivering soldier over
the blood-stained snow, fainting, bleeding
with his wounds, and imploring on his knees
for mercy.

34 Alas ! the savage understandeth not his
words ; but giveth him a blow with the hatch-
et of death.

35 For have not the counsellors of Britain
said, For this will we give unto you sil-
ver and gold ?

36 Thus were the poor wounded prison-
ers of Columbia slaughtered in abundance.

37 And Round-Head, the chief captain of
the warriors, and the savages under him, gat
great praise from Proctor, the chief cap-
tain of the host of Britain.*

38 Neither did the sick and wounded es-
cape, who had gathered themselves toge-
ther in the houses, that they might be
sheltered from the piercing cold ; even
those who were weary and unable to go
forth.

39 For the savages put the burning brand

* See Proctor's accouut of tbe battle, dated Quebec, Febru»
ary 8, 1313.

to the houses, from which thev could not
flee, and burnt them alive therein.

40 And the flames and the smoke arose !
and their cries and their groans reached the
high chancery of heaven,

41 Where they will stand recorded, until
the coming of that Day for which all other
days were made.

42 Lo ! are those the helpmates of the
mighty kingdom of Britain ? that noble and
generous nation, the bulwark of religion?

43 Tell it not in Gath ; publish it not in
the streets of Askalon.*

* The whole of this massacre was conducted under the eyes
of the British officers, and sanctioned by them as well as by their
government ; for this fact has'never been disavowed.

CHAP. XV.

Capture of the British frigate Java, by the
United States frigate ConstittUion.

J.N the twelfth month of the first year of the
decree of the great Sanhedrim, on the twen-
ty and ninth day of the month,

2 It came to pass, that one of the strong
ships of the king had approached the country
of the south, which lieth many thousand
miles off.

3 And the ship was called Java, after one
of the sweet scented islands of the east ;
where the poppy flourishes, where the heat
of the sun is abundant, and where the Bohon •«
Upas emits its deadly poison.

4 Moreover, she carried about four hun-
dred and fifty men, and a governor,* and
many officers and soldiers of the king ; and
she was well prepared for battle.

* Gov, Byslop and suite, bound to Bombay, in the East Indies,
G2

5 And Lambert commanded the ship of
Britain, and he was a brave and valiant man.

6 So as he passed along, nigh unto the
coast of Brazil, where the sun casteth the
shadow of a man to the south at noon day :

7 (A place unknown to the children of Is-,
rael, in the days of Moses)

8 Lo ! one of the tall ships of Columbia,
even the Constitution, beheld her when she
was yet a great way off, and made signs
unto her which she answered not.

9 Which caused the gallant captain, whose
sur-name was Bainbridge,* to cast a shot to-
wards her, after which she received the
thunder of his destroying engines.

10 Audit was about the second hour after
the mid-day, when the sound of the battle-
drum was heard.

] 1 And as they approached towards each
other the people shouted aloud, and the
roaring of the engines was dreadful.

12 And the servants of the king fought
bravely ; and they held out to the last.

13 For they were ashamed to let the na-
tions of the earth say unto them,

14 Lo! ye, who are the lords and the

* Com. Bainbridgc.

masters of the mighty deep, have suffered
these feeble* Yankees to conquer you.

15 Therefore, the slaughter was dreadful,
beyond measure.

16 And the black clouds of smoke arose,
and obscured the rays of the sun, so that
they fought in the shade thereof.

17 And the winds moved the vessels
about, and they strove to avoid the balls of
lead, and the heavy balls of iron, that whis-
tled about them in multitudes.

18 (Now these balls, which were gathered
from the bowels of the earth, were unknown
to the Philistines ; even Sampson was a
stranger to them.)

19 However, the ships fought hard, for
the space of about two hours, when their
thunders ceased.

20 And the ship of Britain had become a
wreck, and the deck thereof was covered
with blood !

21 Nevertheless, the servants of the king
struck not the flag of Britain ; for they were
loth, and hesitated :

* Anacreon Moore, by this time, it is hoped, is sufficiently
convinced of the effeminacy of the Americans,

22 But when Bainbridge, who saw this,
came down upon them a second time, they
humbled themselves, and drew down the
British cross.

23 And the slain and the wounded of the
king, that day, were an hundred three score
and ten ;

24 And those of the people of Columbia,
were about thirty and four.

25 Moreover, Bainbridge, the captain of
the vessel of the United States, was sorely
wounded.

26 And Lambert, the captain of the ship
of the king was wounded, even unto death.

27 Now, after the servants of the king
were taken from the wreck, and meat and
drink sat before them, that they might be re-
freshed, they regaled themselves, and were
thankful.

28 And on the second day Bainbridge put
a match to the black dust that remained in
the ship, and she burst asunder, and rent the
air with a loud noise.

29 And the fragments thereof were spread
upon the waters round about.

30 And the fish of the sea, even the
mighty whales, fled from the noise of tbe
ship.

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31 However, the Constitution escaped not
unhurt, for she was much wounded in her
tackling.

32 So, when Bainbridge came into the
haven of St. Salvador, which lieth farther to
the south, he gave the men of Britain, whom
he had made captive, liberty to go home to
the king, their master.

33 But when the tidings thereof reached
the palace of the king, the lords and the prin-
ces and the rulers of Britain were con-
founded.

34 Their spirits sunk within them : aston-
ishment seized the tyrants of the ocean.

35 The smile of joy had departed from
their countenances, and the gloom of despair
hovered around them.

36 The wise men and the orators were
mute ; they gaped one upon another, and
wist not what to say.

37 But the people of Columbia, from the
north to the south, were gladdened ; and be-
stowed great honor and praise on Bainbridge
the captain.

38 Even the great Sanhedrim of the peo-
ple rejoiced with great joy.

CHAP. XVI.

Com. Rogers' return from a second cruise —
capture of the United Stales'' brig Viper —
the General Armstrong and a British fri-
gate— privateering.

IN OW it came i o pass, in the beginning of
the one thousand eight hundred and thir-
teenth year of the Great Founder of the
Christian sect,

2 That a strong ship of the United States,
called the President, commanded by Rogers,
returned a second time to the land of Co-
lumbia.

3 And while she was upon the waters of
the great deep, she fell in with one of the
packets of the king, called after the swift-
flying bird* of the air, and made capture
thereof.

4 And in the ship Rogers found abun-

* Swallow.'

dance of wealth; even an hundred, sixty and
eight thousand pieces of silver.

5 And it was carried, with many horses,
to a place of safe-keeping,* in the town of
Boston, which lieth to the east.

6 Moreover, he made capture of another
ship of the king,f laden with oil and bones
of the great fish of the deep.

7 Now it happened, on the seventeenth
day of the first month of the same year,

8 That one of the weak vessels of the
United States,:}: became a prey to one of the
strong ships of the king, called the Narcis-
sus ; albeit she fought not.

9 About this time the great waters of
the Chesapeake, which empty into the sea*
were guarded by the strong ships of the
king, so that the vessels might not arrive or
depart therefrom.

10 But the vessels of the United States,
and the private vessels of the men of Colum-
bia, were doing great damage unto the com-
merce of Britain, even in her own waters.

1 1 And the number of the private vessels.

* State Bank of Boston. f Snip Argo.

t United States' brig Viper.

tabt moved swiftly over the face of the wa-
ters, and went out to despoil the commerce
of Britain, and make capture merchant ves-
sels thereof, was about two hundred, two
score and ten.

12 And they made capture of more than
fifteen hundred of the vessels of the people
of Britain.*

13 Moreover, there was a sore battle
between one of the private armed vessels of
the people of the United States, and a strong
ship of the king.f

14 The privateer was called the General
Armstrong, and the name of the captain was
Guy.%

15 Now Guy was a valiant man, and fear
was a stranger to him.

16 And on the eleventh day of the third
month, he espied from afar a vessel which
appeared as a speck upon the waters.

17 But when he bore down upon her, be-
hold ! she was a fighting ship of Britain,
carrying the destroying engines.

18 And Guy was nigh being entrapped,

* During the war; j A British frigate.

\ Capt. Champlin.

for he was deceived, thinking it a merchant's
ship.

19 Therefore he was compelled to fight,
so he opened upon the vessel of the king
one of his mischievous engines called, in the
vernacular tongue, long-torn.

20 And they fought hard, and the noise of
the engines was very great.

21 And the balls of lead and iron shower-
ed around like hail-stones ; for the strong
ship of Britain had them in abundance.

22 Now the slaughter was dreadful on
both sides, and Guy was nigh making cap-
ture of the ship : but he received a wound
and his vessel was disabled, so he made good
his escape.

23 And the slain and the wounded of Guy
were twenty and three, and the vessel of the
king lost about twice that number.

24 Now, for this valiant act, Guy gat
great honor, and the people gave him a
sword of curious wrorkmanship.

2f) Moreover, the Saratoga, the Scourge,
the Chasseur, and many other private vessels
of the people of the United States, were a
grievous pi ague to the servants of the king;

26 Inasmuch as some of them made sport

with the mighty blockade of Britain, which
she put forth against the free people of the
land of Columbia.

27 For when they came nigh unto the
coast of Britain, they made capture and
burnt the vessels of the kins;, that carried rich
merchandise, costly jewels, and silver and
gold.

28 Yea, even in their own waters, and in
the sight of their own havens, did they do
these things.

29 For it happened that the cunning Yan-
kees knew how to construct the swift-sailing
vessels, that they out-ran the strong vessels
of Britain.

30 And as the ships of Britain moved but
slowly on the waters, so they caught them not.

31 Wherefore the artificers, the mechan-
ics, and those who dealt in merchandise, rais-
ed their voices to the great council of Bri-
tain, saying,

32 Lo ! are we not the faithful servants of
the king, our master ? have we not given unto
him the one half of our whole substance ? and
shall these Yankees take from us the remain-
der?

33 Hath not the king a thousand ships of

war? and wherefore should we be hemmed in?

34 Lo ! our merchant vessels are idle ! nei-
ther can we pass in safety even unto the land
of Hibei nia, which lieth nigh unto us.

35 And, behold, the captain of a private
armed vessel of the Yankees, in derision of
the proclamation of our lord the king, hath
proclaimed the island of Great Britain and
her dependencies in a state of rigorous
blockade ; saying, Lo ! I have the power to
hem ye in ;

36 Therefore, let the counsellors of the
king ponder these things, and let the strong
ships of Britain drive the vessels of Columbia
from our coast.

37 Now the wise men of Britain heard
those things with sorrow; and they spake one
to another concerning the matter :

38 But they wist not what to do; for the cun-
ning of the captains of the fast sailing vessels
of Columbia, surpassed the wisdom of the
lords of Britain.

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^KWi

CHAP. XVII.

Capture and burning of Ogdensburgh by the
British,

IN these days the war against Columbia
was waged with great violence.

2 And the fur- clad savages prowled in se-
cret places and fell upon the helpless.

3 * They hid themselves in the wilderness ;
they couched down as a lion ; and as a young
lion, they watched for their prey.'

4 The tall and leafless trees of the forest
bent to the strong winds of the north ; and
the sound thereof was as the roaring of
mighty waters.

5 Moreover, the face of the earth was
covered with snow, and the water of the
livers was frozen.

6 And the borders of Columbia, nigh un-
to the province of the king, were exposed to
the transgressions of the enemy.

7 And the soldiers of the king came in

abundance from the island of Britain, and
pitched their tents in the Canadian provinces.

8 Accordingly, it came to pass, on the
twenty-second day of the second month, be-
ing the birth-day of Washington, the de-
liverer,

9 That a mighty host came out of the pro-
vince of the king, and went against the town
of Ogdensburgh, and made capture thereof.

10 And there were five slain and ten
wounded of the people of Columbia, and
about three score were taken by the servants
of the king.

1 1 Moreover, the men of Britain gat much
spoil ; even a multitude of the black dust
fell into their hands ;

12 And twelve of the destroying engines,
which the people of Columbia had taken
from the king, about forty years before.

13 Also, three hundred tents, and more
than a thousand weapons of war ; but the
vessels and the boats, they consumed with
fire.

14 Now Ogdensburgh was a beautiful vil-
lage to behold; nevertheless they burned it
with fire, and it became a heap of ruins.

15 And the women and the children look-

H 2

ed for their homes, but found them not ; and
they sat down in sorrow, for the haughty
conquerors laughed at their sufferings.

16 After which they returned with their
spoil to Pt£$£ott, from whence they came,
being on the other side of the water, in the
province of the king.

17 And the honor that was poured out up-
on the slaves of Britain that day was as a
thimble full of water spilt into the sea : for
they were like unto a giant going out against
a bulrush.

CHAP. XVIIL

Capture of the Peacock, of 1 8 guns, by the U.
S. sloop of war Hornet, of 16 guns — return
of the Chesapeake from a cruise.

A HE deeds of the renowned warriors, the
patriots, and the valiant men of Columbia,
have prepared a path for the scribe, which
he is compelled to follow.

2 But, as the soaring eagle moves to its
craggy nest, or the cooing dove to its tender
mate, so is the compulsion of his heart.

3 If the wickedness of Britain hath made
manifest her folly ; if her sons have sat down
in sackcloth and ashes, the scribe looketh
down upon her with pity.

4 It is written that, He who prideth him-
self in his strength shall be humbled ; and the
haughty shall be brought low.

5 And, if the Lord hath smiled upon the
arms of Columbia, let no man frown.

6 Now it came to pass, in the eighteen

hundred and thirteenth year of the christian
era, on the twenty-fourth day of the second
month,

7 That one of the fighting vessels of Co-
lumbia, called the Hornet, which signifieth,
in the vernacular tongue, a fly whose sting
is poison,

8 Moved upon the great waters of the
deep, far to the south, nigh unto a place
which is called Demarara.

9 Moreover, the captain of the Hornet
was a valiant man, and his name was Law-
rence.

10 And it was towards the setting of the
sun, when he came nigh unto one of the
strong ships of the king, called the Peacock,
after the bird whose feathers are beautiful
to behold ;

1 1 And the captai n thereof was sur-named
Peake.

12 Now began the roaring noises of the
engines of destruction, that opened their
mouths against one another ; and dreadful
was the slaughter of that day.

13 Nevertheless, in the space of about the
fourth part of an hour the vessel of the king
captured by the people of Columbia,

14 And they found therein some of the
mariners of the United States, who had beg-
ged that they might go down into the hold
of the ship, and not. raise their hands against
the blood of their own brethren :

15 But Peake, the commander, suffered
them not, but compelled them to fight against
their own kinsmen; and one of them was
slain in battle.

16 And the killed and maimed of the peo-
ple of Britain, were about two score and
two ; and Peake, the captain, was also slain :
and the loss of Columbia was about five
souls !

17 Moreover, the Peacock sunk down in-
to the yawning deep, before they could get
all the men of Britain out of her ; and three
of the people of Columbia were buried with
her, whilst in the humane act of endeavoring
to preserve the lives of the enemy.

18 Now this was the fifth fighting vessel
of the king which had been humbled, since
the decree of the great Sanhedrim, before
the destroying engines of the people of Co-
lumbia.

19 And Lawrence, and the brave men that

fought under him, had honor and praise pour-
ed out upon them abundantly.

20 Moreover the people of New- York
gave unto Lawrence vessels of silver, with
curious devices ; and they made a feast for
the men who fought in the Hornet.

21 And all the people were exceedingly
rejoiced at the valiant acts of Lawrence, and
his fame extended throughout the land of
Columbia ; the sound of his name was the
joy of the heart.

22 But when the news thereof reached the
ears of the wise men of Britain, they said,
Lo ! these men are giants ; neither are they
like unto the warriors of the king.

23 And their witchcraft and their cunning
are darkness unto us ; even as when a man
putteth a candle under a bushel.

24 Behold! five times hath the "striped
bunting" of Columbia, triumphed over the
royal cross of Britain.

25 Now the great Sanhedrim, who were
assembled together, forgat not the valiant
deeds of the mariners of Columbia.

26 For they divided amongst them more
than seventy thousand pieces oi silver.

27 And it came to pa«s, on the tenth day
of the fourth month, in the same .year, that
the Chesapeake, a strong vessel of the United
States, arrived in the haven of Boston.

28 She had sailed upon the face of the
rough waters more than an hundred days, af-
ter she departed from the land of Columbia,
and passed a great way to the south :

29 And went hard by the island of Barba-
doeSy and those places, in the great sea,
which encompass the world, from whence
they bring poisoned waters, which open the
womb of the earth to receive the unwary
sons of men.

30 Moreover, in returning, she came nigh
unto the Capes of Virginia, where the sweet
scented plant* groweth in abundance.

31 And while she was on the ocean she
captured a number of the vessels of the peo-
ple of Britain, which were laden with rich
merchandise.

* Tobacco.

CHAP. XIX.

Capture of Little York, in Upper Canada —
the destruction of the whole American army
prevented by the precaution of Gen. Pike —
his death.

JN OW, while these things happened in the
south, and the evils of war destroyed the life
of man, and the smiles of heaven strengthen-
ed the arms, and lifted up the glory of Co-
lumbia ;

2 Behold, preparations of warfare were
making on the borders of the great lakes of
the north.

3 And the vessels of war of Columbia
that were upon the waters of the lake called
Ontario, were commanded by a brave man,
whose name was Chauncey.

4 Now on the twenty fifth day of the fourth
month, the army of Columbia, who were ga-
thered on the shore of the lake, went down
into the strong vessels of Chauncey.

5 And the number that went into the
vessels was about two thousand.

C And Henry* and Zebulon, whose sur-
name was Pike,f were the chief captains of
the host of Columbia.

7 On the same day the sails of the vessels
were spread to the winds of heaven, and they
moved towards a place called Little York,%
in the province of Canada.

8 Howbeit, the winds were adverse and
blew with great violence from the east.

9 Nevertheless, on the morning of the
twenty -seventh day of the same month, the
army of Columbia, commanded by Pike, the
chief captain, moved out of the strong ships
of the United States.

10 But Henry remained on board the ves-
sel of Chauncey, neither came he to the wa-
ter's edge.

11 And the place wThere the host of Co-
lumbia landed was to the west of the town,
about twenty and four furlongs, and from
the strong hold of the king about ten fur-
longs.

* Major General Dearborn. f Brig. Gen. Pike.

\ Capital of U. Canada.

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12 The gallant Forsyth, who led a band
of brave men, who fought not for iilihy lu-
cre's sake, went before the host.

13 And their weapons of war were of cu-
rious workmanship,* and they sent forth
balls of lead ; such as were unknown to Pha-
raoh when he followed the children of Israel
down into the red sea.

14 Now Zebulon, with a thousand chosen
men, followed close after Forsyth, the war-
rior.

1 5 About this time the savages and the
servants of the king, even a great multi-
tude, opened their engines of destruction
without mercy.

16 And from the forest, and the secret
places, their balls were showered like unto
hail-stones, and the sound thereof was as
sharp thunder.

17 And a man, whose name was Sheaffe,
was the chief captain of the host of Britain.

18 Now the destroying engines of the
strong hold of the king issued fire and
smoke with a mighty noise, and shot at the
vessels of the United States.

* Rifles.

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19 But Chauncey returned unto them
four-fold ; and the battle waxed hot, both on
the land and on the water.

20 And the men of Columbia rushed for-
ward with fierceness, and drove the men of
Britain from their strong hold.

21 So they fled towards the town for safe-
ty, for they were overcome ; and the savages
were smitten with fear, their loud yellings
ceased, and their feet were light as the wild
roe ;

22 Nevertheless, the men of Columbia
shouted aloud, and sounded their trumpets,
their cymbals, and their noisy drums, which
were contrived since the days of Jeroboam,
king of Israel.

23 And Zebulon, the valiant warrior, fol-
lowed hard after them ; and they found no
rest ; for they were sore pushed, and the
phantom of their imaginations pictured out
new evils.

24 So when they found they were nigh
being made captive, they departed in haste
from the town and from the strong hold
thereof, save about two score.

25 Now when the army of Britain was
overthrown ; when they were compelled to

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flee from the strong bold ; the wickedness of
Satan entered into their hearts.

26 And they gathered together abundance
of the black dust and fixed it into the lower-
most part of the fort, below the walls of
stone.

27 After which they put a lighted match
nigh to it, so that when the whole army of
Columbia got into the hold, they might be
destroyed.

28 But the Lord, who is good, even he
who governeth the destinies of man, permit-
ted it not.

29 Now when Zebulon and bis army
came out of the thick woods, in battle array,
to go forth against the strong hold,

30 Lo ! they saw not the host of Britain :
but the eye of Zebulon was as the eye of an
eagle, his strength as the lion, and his judg-
ment as the wise :

- 31 So he stayed his men of war from rush-
ing forward towards the place, lest they
might be entrapped : and he caused them to
move along the wood to the right and to the
left,

32 About this time a stripling, from the
south, with his weapon of war in his hand.

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ran up to Zebulon, and spake unto him,
saying,

33 Behold! a man of Britain appeareth in
the fort ; suffer me, I pray thee, to slay
him, for he is busied with the destroying en-
gines :

34 But Zebulon said, Nay ; we are yet a
great way off.

35 And the young man entreated him a
second time, saying, I beseech thee, let me
step out before the host and slay him, lest
the engine be let loose upon us ; then Zebu-
lon said unto him, Go.

36 So he ran out before the army and shot
the man, and he fell to the earth ; and it was
about a furlong off, and the weight of the
ball was about the weight of a shekel.

37 But as the young man returned to
where the army stayed, behold ! the black
dust in the hold caught fire, and it rent the
air with the noise of a thousand thunders:

38 And the whole army fell down upon
their faces* to the earth ; and the stones,

* However strange this may appear, it is a fact that the
concussion of the air produced that effect on nearly all who
fronted the explosion,

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and the fragments of rocks, were lifted
high ; and the falling thereof was terrible,
even unto death.

39 Yea, it was dreadful as the mighty
earthquake, which overturneth cities.

40 And the whole face of the earth round
about, and the army of Zebulon, were over-
shadowed with black smoke ; so that, for a
time, one man saw not another :

41 But when the heavy clouds of smoke
passed away towards the wnst, behold the
earth was covered with the killed and the
wounded.

42 Alas! the sight was shocking to be-
hold ; as the deed was ignoble.

43 About two hundred men rose not : the
stones had bruised them ; the sharp rocks
bad fallen upon them:

44 They were wedged into the earth :
their weapons of war were bent down into
the ground with them ; their feet were turned
towards heaven ; their limbs were lopped off.

45 But when those who escaped unhurt
arose and looked around, they beheld not
their chieftain ; he had fallen to the earth.

46 A huge stone smote him upon the
back, and two of his officers, (one of whom

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was the gallant Fraser,*) raised him up and
led him forth from the field of murder ;
the one on the one side, and the other on the
other side.

47 And as they led him away he turned
hi* head around to his brave warriors, and
said unto them, Go on: I will be with you
soon ! I am not slain.

48 The magic of his words gave joy to
their hearts ; for they loved him as they
loved their own father.

49 And with resistless force his noble
band rushed on, at the trumpet's soilnd, over
the heaps of slain and wounded to glory,
and to triumph!

50 And a swift messenger ran down unto
Henry, with these words in his mouth, Lo !
the right hand of our army is slain! its pride
is gone ! Zebulon has fallen !

51 Immediately Henry departed from the
fleet, and came to the shore, and went up
aiid led the host of Columbia to the town
and took it.

52 JNow the slain, the maimed and the

* Major Fiaser, son of Donald Fraser of New-York.

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captives of the host of Britain that day, were
about a thousand fighting men :

53 And the loss of the men of Columbia
was about three hundred slain and wounded.

54 And Henry, the ehief captain, gave
great honor to the captains under him, even
Seott, and Boyd, and Porter, and all the brave
men that fought that day.

55 Nevertheless, Sheaffe, the captain of
the king, escaped with a handful of men,,
and the swift-footed savages : leaving behind
him the insignia of British mercy ! — a human
scalp!

56 But the rejoicings of the people were
mingled with deep sorrow ; for the brave
were slain in battle.

57 Oh! earth, how long shall thy inhabit-
ants delight in warfare ? when shall the old
men cease to weep for their children ?

58 Behold yon lonely widows ; they weep
for their husbands and their children; but
they shall see their faces no more!

59 The fair daughters of Columbia sigh
for the return of their beloved.

60 Seest thou those little ones ? they fly
to their disconsolate mother , they leap with

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joy at the name of father ! but he shall never
return !

61 Oh! that they had cast the black dust
into the sea ! then might not the children of
men weep and wail.

62 Now on the next day, when the army
of Zebulon gat the tidings that their captain
was slain, the tears started in their eyes ;
they were mute, their hearts failed them ;
and they became as weak women.

63 Moreover, the United States made
great lamentations over him; and the re-
membrance of his name shall live in the
hearts of the people.

64 The eagle of Columbia dropt a feather
from her wing, which the angel of brightness
caught ere it fell to the earth, ascended
fo heaven, and recorded the name of Pike.

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CHAP. XX.

Sketches of the History of America*

X HE voice of many years shall drop upon
the children of men ; and our children's chil-
dren shall hearken unto it in the days to
come.

2 The country of Columbia is a wide ex-
tended land, which reacheth from the north
to the south, more than eight thousand
miles ; and the breadth thereof is about three
thousand.

3 Moreover, the name of the country was
called after the name of a great man, who
was born in a place called Genoa ; being in
Italia, on the sea-coast.

4 His name was Christopher, sur- named
Columbus.

5 As the righteous man struggleth against
wickedness, so did he against ignorance and
stupidity.

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6 Nevertheless, it came to pass, in the
fourteen hundred and ninety-second year of
the Christian era, that he crossed the waters
of the mighty deep, a thing that had never
been known among the sons of men :

7 And the place where he landed was an
island in the sea, nigh unto the continent of
Columbia, called San Salvador; which, be-
ing interpreted, signifieth a place of safety.

8 And the place was inhabited by wild
savages, and they were naked.

9 Now when the people heard that Co-
lumbus had found a new land, they were as-
tonished beyond measure, for it was many
thousand miles off; moreover, some of them
strove to rob him of the honor, and he was
treated wrongfully.

10 But his name was lifted up above his
enemies, and it shall not be lost.

11 Now the land of Columbia is a most
plentiful land, yielding gold and silver, and
brass and iron abundantly.

12 Likewise, all manner of creatures, and
herbs and fruits of the earth,

13 From the red cherry, and the rosy
peach of the north, to the lemon, and the
golden orange of the south.

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14 From the small insect, that cheateth the
microscopic eye, to the huge mammoth that
once moved on the borders of the river Hud-
son ; on the great river Ohio ; and even down
to the country of Patagonia in the south.
j 1 5 Now the height of a mammoth is about
seven cubits and an half, and the length
thereof fourteen cubits ; and the bones there-
of being weighed were more than thirty
thousand shekels; and the length of the
tusks is more than six cubits.

16 It is more wonderful than the elephant;
and the history thereof, is it not recorded in
the book of Jefferson, the scribe ?*

17 The fierce tiger and the spotted leo-
pard dwell in the dark forests ; and the swift-
footed deer upon the mountains and high
places.

18 Now the number of inhabitants that
are spread over the whole continent, is more
than an hundred million.

19 And the people of Columbia, who are
independent of the tyrants of the earth, and
who dwell between the great river which is
called Mississippi, in the south, and the pro-

* Jefferson's notes on Virginia.

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vince of Canada, in the north, bein» number-
ed, are about a thousand times ten thousand
souls.*

20 The men are comely and noble, and
cowardice hath forgot to light upon them :
neither are they a superstitious people ; they
are peace-makers, they love the God of Is-
rael, and worship him; and there are no
idolaters amongst them.

21 The women are passing beautiful;
they are like unto fresh lilies ; their cheeks
are like wild roses ; their lips as a thread of
scarlet; nature hath gifted them with Roman
virtue and patriotism ; and they have spread
goodness with a plentiful hand.

22 Now it had happened in times past that
the king of Britain had made war upon the
people of Columbia, even forty years ago.

23 For the riches and prosperity of Co-
lumbia had become great, and the king cov-
eted them.

24 And the war raged with the might of
Britain, even in the heart of the land of Co-
lumbia, for about the space of seven years,

*Thr last census, in 1810, stated the amount at about 8,000,000,
the uumberinay now probably be increased to 10,000,000.
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when the army of Columbia became trium-
phant ; neither could the power of Britain
conquer the sons of liberty.

25 So those who remained of the armies
of Britain returned home to the king, their
master ; and there was peace throughout the
United States, and a covenant made between
the nations.

26 But the names of the wise men of the
great Sanhedrim, in those days, and the
names of those who fought hard in battle,
and spilt their blood in the cause of liberty,
are they not written in the books of the
chronicles of those days ?

27 Now the fatness of the land of Colum-
bia bringeth people from all nations to dwell
therein.

28 The people of Columbia use no per-
suasion, the sacred cause of Liberty is the
star of attraction ; and the time shall
come when the eyes of all men shall be open-
ed, and the earth shall rejoice.

29 Their laws are wholesome, for the
people are the lawgivers, even as it was in
the days of Cesar : but they know no kings.

30 Here the poor Briton, that flies from

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the blood-suckers of his country, findeth
plenty.

31 The nationless Gaul fleeth here for
safety from the wrath of a shallow king.

32 The persecuted Hibernian stealeth
away, like a thief in the night, to behold the
resting place of freedom.

33 Here the dull Germany the jealous
Spaniard, and the royal Scot, are all received
with the open hand of hospitality.

CHAP. XXI.

Pepredations in the Chesapeake — Havre-de-
Grace burnt by the British under Adm*
Cockburn — attack on Crany Island — -
Hampton taken by the British — outrages.

JNOW it came to pass, that the mighty
fleet of Britain, which was moving round
about the great Bay of Chesapeake, com-
mitted much evil upon the shores thereof.

2 And they robbed those who were de-
fenceless, and carried away their fatted cat-
tle, their sheep, and all those things which
they found, and put them into the strong
ships of the king.

3 Moreover, they burned the dwellings
of the helpless with fire, and they accounted
it sport.

4 And the old men, the little children, and
the women, yea the fair daughters of Colum-
bia, were compelled to fly from the wicked-
ness of barbarians.

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5 Even the small villages that rose beauti-
fully on the river side, became a prey unto
them, and were consumed by the mighty c<m-
querors of Europe.

6 They were like hungry wolves that are
never satisfied ; destruction and devastation
marked their footsteps.

7 JNow the ships of the king were com-
manded by a wicked man whose name was
Cockburn.

8 And it was so that on the third day of
the fifth month, in the thirty and seventh
year of the independence of the people of
Columbia,

9 Cockburn, sur-named the wicked, led
forth a host of the savage men of Britain,
against a pleasant village, called Havre-de-
Grace, which lieth on the borders of the Sus-
quehanna, a noble river ; being in the state
of Maryland.

10 Now there was none to defend the
place, save one man, whose sur-name was
O' Neil, who came from the land of Hibernia,
and him they made captive.

11 And they came as the barbarians of
the wilderness ; fierceness was in their looks,
cruelty was in their hearts.

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12 To the dwelling houses they put the
burning brand, and plundered the poor and
needy without pity ; such wickedness was
not done even among the Philistines.

13 The women and children cried aloud,
and fell down at the feet of the chief captain
of the king : but, alas ! his heart was like un-
to the heart of Pharaoh ; he heard them not.

14 However, it came to pass, the next
dav, when the brave Cockburn had collected
his booty, and glutted his savage disposition,
he departed.

15 And on the sixth day of the same
month he went against other unprotected
villages, which lie on the river Sassafras,
called, Frederickstown and Georgetown, and
burnt them also.

16 So did he return to his wickedness as a
dog returneth to his vomit.

17 Now about this time the number of
the strong ships of Britain were increased,
and great multitudes of the soldiers of the
king came with them to the waters of the
Chesapeake.

18 And it came to pass, on the twenty-se-
cond day of the next month, that Cockburn,
the chief captain of the ships of Britain, §lS-

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sayed to go against a small island, nigh unto
Korfolk, in the state of I irginia, called in
the vernacular tongue Crany -Island.

19 And the number of the men of Britain
that went against the island was about five
thousand ; and they began to get upon the
shore about the dawning of the day.

20 Near unto this place a few vessels of
Columbia, commanded by the gallant Cas-
sia, were hemmed in by about a score of the
mighty ships of the king.

21 Now the fighting vessels under Cassin
were mostly small, and were called gun-
boats, and they were little more than half a
score in number.

22 Howbeit, but a few days before they
went against the Junon,* a strong ship of
Britain, and compelled her to depart from
before the mouths of the destroying en-
gines.

23 But the island was defenceless ; and
there came to protect it an hundred brave
seamen from the gun-boats, and an hundred
and fifty valiant men from the Constellation^
a fighting ship of the United States.

* British frigate Junon.

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24 And they brought the destroying en-
gines with them, and they let them loose
upon the vessels of the king, and upon the
men who were landing upon the shore.

25 And the thundering noise thereof as-
tonished the servants of the king ; for they
knew there was but a handful of men upon
the island.

26 Moreover, Britain in her folly had in-
vented a new instrument of destruction, which
they called Congreve Rockets ; and they threw
them in great abundance.

27 But they were harmless as turtle doves,
for th(-y killed not a man.

28 Now the men of Columbia, with their
handicraft, shot the balls of iron strait as an
arrow from a bow, and thereby did much
damage to the slaves of the king.

29 Inasmuch as they slew about two hun-
dred of the men of Britain that day ; and
drove the host of them from the island.

30 So the mighty army of Britain fled in
haste to the strong ships of the king for
safety.

31 Now on the twenty-fifth day of the
same month the army of Britain went against

a village called Hampton, which lieth in the
state of Virginia, and took it.

32 Hovvbeit, the little band of Columbia,
commanded by Crutchfield, fought hard
against them.

33 Nevertheless, they prevailed over him,
and slew seven of his men, and wounded
others, upon which he fled ; for the men of
Britain were like unto a swarm of locusts.

34 But the blood of two hundred royal
slaves became a sacrifice to the wickedness
of their leaders.

35 There is a time when truth may be ut-
tered with pleasure ; and the droppings
thereof are like unto frankincense and
myrrh.

36 But, alas ! the hour hath passed away
or it hath not yet come ; she hath gone down
into the vale of tears ; yea, deep sorrow
treadeth upon her heels.

37 Oh ! Albion ! that a veil might be cast
over the transgressions of that day :

38 Thy wickedness shall be written with
a pen of iron, and with the point of a dia-
mond.

39 It was here, even in Hampton, that

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thy strength and thy majesty rose up against
the poor the sick and the needy.

40 Instead of protecting the tender wo-
men, the fairest work of God ; the life of the
world ; behold ! what hast thou done ?

41 See ! the shrieking matron cast herself
into the waters that she may escape thy bru-
tal violence : but all in vain; her garments
are torn from her ; she becomes a prey t©
thy savage lust.

42 Not she alone, but her daughter, and
her fair sisters, have fallen into thy unhal-
lowed hands, and been defiled !

43 Oh, Britain ! the voice of violated chas-
tity riseth up against thee : the mark of the
beast is printed in thy forehead :

44 Even the old and weak men became
victims of thy barbarity ; thy servants strip-
ped the aged Hope, and buffeted him ; with
the points of their swords did they torment
him.

45 Do the groans of the murdered Kirby
creep into thine ears? go thou and repent of
thine evil ; and do so no more : the Lord
God of hosts shall be thy judge.

46 The people of Columbia shall forgive

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thy crimes against them ; hut the remem-
brance thereof shall live coeval with time ;
neither shall they forget the name of Cock-
burn.

47 Even the sect of the tories despised
him; the evils which he wrought caused many
of them to turn aside and walk in the foot-
steps of the great Sanhedrim.

48 And thou, black Revenge! dreadful
fiend ! sleep within the precincts of Hamp-
ton : a strong seal is put upon thy sepulchre;
the sons of Columbia shall not disturb thee.

49 When they pass by this ill-fated town,
they shall step aside and weep ; neither shall
they enter the streets thereof, lest they awa-
ken thee.

50 And woe unto the royal potentate, or
the princely ruler, that shall presume to break
the seal, or rouse thee from thy slumbers !

51 Thy waking will be as the waking of
the hungry tiger, when he riseth up to re-
fresh himself; retribution shall be obtained ;
and the heathen shall tremble.

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CHAP. XXII.

Mnssian mediation — Bayard and Gallatin sail
for St. Petersburgh — the British compelled
to abandon the siege of Fort Meigs.

JL HE lofty eagle cutteth the air with his
wings, and moveth rapidly along ; the fish of
the deep glide swiftly through the waters ;
the timid deer bounds through the thick
forests with wonderful speed :

2 But Imagination surpasseth them all;
she rideth on the fleet winds ; she holdeth a
stream of lightning in her hand.

3 In an instant she fiieth from the frozen
mountains of Zembla, in the regions of the
north, to the burning sands of Africa, in the
torrid zone.

4 Now the sons of Columbia were peace-
makers; neither did their footsteps follow af-
ter warfare.

5 (It is written in the holy scriptures, Bless-
ed are the peace-makers, for they shall be
called the children of God.)

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6 So the great Sanhedrim of the people
sent two of the wise men of Columbia, the
one named Gallatin and the other Bayard,
into a distant country :

7 Even unto the extensive country of
Russia, that there they might meet the wise
men of Britain, and heal the wounds of the
nations, and make peace with one another.

8 But the people of Britain are a stiff-
necked race, and they yielded not to the en-
treaties of the great Sanhedrim ; therefore
the war continued to rage.

9 So it came to pass, on the fifth day of the
fifth month, in the pleasant season of the
year; when the trees put forth their leaves
and the air is perfumed with the sweet scent
of flowers, and the blue violets bespread the
green hillocks ;

10 That Harrison, the chief captain, from
the west, the brave warrior, who had en-
trenched himself in the strong hold of Meigs,
nigh unto the river Miami, sallied forth
against the savages and the slaves of Britain,
that hemmed him in.

1 1 Now there were about a thousand sol-
diers of the king, and a thousand savages
that had besieged the fort many days ; and

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threw therein the balls of destruction, and
strove to make captive the army of Columbia.

12 Nevertheless Harrison, and his gallant
little band, fought hard against them, and
drove them from before the strong hold with
great slaughter.

13 Likewise, the slain of Columbia was
about four score, besides the wounded.

14 Moreover, the chief captain gave great
honor to Miller and all the captains and sol-
diers under him; even those called militia.

15 And the names of the states called Ohio
and Kentucky were raised high, by the valiant
acts of their sons that day.

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CHAP XXIII.

Surrender of Fort George and Fori Erie to
the Americans — Gen. Brown drives the Bri-
tish from before Sacketfs Harbor, with
great loss — Gens. Winder and Chandler
made prisoners at Forty-mile Creek.

JN OW, on the twenty-seventh day of the
same month, being thirty days after Zebulon
had gone to sleep with his fathers,

2 Henry, whose sur-name was Dearborn,
and Lewis* the chief captains of the army of
Columbia, and Chauncey the commander of
the fleet of the United States, that moved on
the waters of the great lake Ontario, essayed
to go against Fort George and Fort Erie, in
the province of the king

3 For they had previously concerted their
plan and matured it ; and taken on board the
ships, the army of Columbia, and a number of
the destroying engines.

_ ■— — — . . —,-**.*^- M«-,y.

* Gen. Morgan Lewis.

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4 And when the vessels of Chauncey came
nigh unto the place, they let the destroying
engines loose upon the fort, with a roaring
noise.

5 In the meantime the army landed upon
the shore, and went against the servants of
the king.

6 And the men of Britain were frighten-
ed at the sound of the warring instruments
that reached their camp, and they fled in dis-
may towards the strong hold of Queenstown.

7 And they destroyed their tents, and
their store-houses, and put a match to the
black dust of their magazines, and blew them
up into the air ; this they did even from Chip-
jjarva and Albino.

8 Moreover, the slain and wounded of the
king were two hundred two score and ten ; of
the men of Columbia about three score were
slain and maimed.

9 So the forts George and Erie were cap-
tured by the army and navy of the United
States.

10 And Henry, and Isaac, whose sur-name
was Chauncey, spake well of all the captains
and men that fought with them.

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1 1 The gallant captains Scott and Forsyth
fought bravely ; neither were they afraid.

12 Boyd, and M'Comb, and Winder, and
Chandler, and Porter, and a host of heroes,
turned not aside from the heat of the battle.

13 And here the noble spirit of the youth-
ful Perry burst forth into view ; a man made
to astonish the world, and shower down glory
upon the arms of Columbia.

14 Now it happened about the same time
that the strong ships of Britain moved to-
wards the other end of the lake, to the east
thereof, and went against the place called
SacketCs Harbor.

15 The fleet of the king was commanded
by a chief captain whose name was Yeo ; and
Prevost, the governor of Canada, command-
ed the army.

16 And on the morning of the twenty-
ninth day of the month, they landed more
than a thousand men on the shores of Co-
lumbia.

17 Howbeit, a certain valiant man, even
Jacob, whose sur-name was Brown, com-
manded the host of Columbia that went
against them :

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18 And Jacob, albeit a man of peace,*
drove the men of Britain, and compelled
them to flee rapidly from the shore, and get
them into their vessels.

19 So Prevost and Yeo returned to the
strong hold of Kingston.

20 And the skill of Jacob, in driving away
the soldiers of the king, pleased the people,
and they honored him greatly.

21 J\Tot many days after these things, there
was a sore battle fought, near to a place call-
ed Forty-mile Creek.

22 And it was so that Winder and Chan-
dler, two brave captains of the United States,
and about four score men, were come upon
unawares in the darkness of the night, and
made captive by the servants of the king.

23 After which they were conveyed to the
strong hold of Montreal, which lieth in the
province of Canada, on the river St. Lawrence.

24 The officers and soldiers of Columbia
fought bravely, and there were many slain
and wounded on both sides ;

25 Nevertheless, the army of the United
States rested nigh unto the place.

/.I i » ii . i ■* *•

* General Biown is a Quaker.

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CHAP. XXIV.

Capture of the Chesapeake — Com. Decatur
blockaded in New-London.

JLN these days the pride of Britain wae
sorely wounded ; for she had been discomfit-
ed upon the waters of the great deep ; and
disappointment had sharpened her anger.

2 The people of Columbia had triumphed
over her ships ; and her mighty armies had
gained no honors.

3 Notwithstanding she had made peace
with the nations of Europe, and her whole
strength was turned against the people of
Columbia.

4 The prosperity of many hundred years
had flattered her, and she was puffed up with
the vanity thereof ; yea3 she had forgotten
herself.

5 So it came to pas's, on the first day of
the sixth month, a certain strong ship of the

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lung, called the Shannon, appeared before
the haven of Boston, which lieth to the east.

6 And she bid defiance to the vessels of
Columbia; for she had prepared herself for
the event.

7 Now the Chesapeake, a fighting ship of
the United States, was nigh unto the place ;
and she was commanded by the brave Law-
rence, who had gained much honor in the sight
of the people ; neither was he afraid.

8 And he went forth to battle against the
vessel of the king, which was commanded by
Broke, a valiant man.

9 Moreover, the mischievous engines that
were in the ship of Britain were more, like-
wise the number of their men were greater
than those of the vessel of the United States.

10 For Broke had gotten about two hun-
dred men, and secreted them, so that when
the hour of danger arrived they might assist
his men, and fall unawares upon the men of
JLawrence.

11 Nevertheless, towards the going down
of the sun, the vessels drew nigh unto each
other.

12 And Lawrence spake unto his officers
and his mariners, saying :

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13 Now shall we set our engines at the
work of destruction ; let the fire issue out
of their mouths, as it were like unto fiery
dragons.

14 And although their numbers be great-
er than ours, yet may we be conquerors ; for
he who is little of spirit gainelh nothing.

15 But if, peradventure, we should be
overcome, even then shall not the sacred
cause of Liberty perish, neither shall the
people of Columbia be disheartened.

16 Also, your names shall be recorded as
the champions of freedom.

17 And the nations of the earth shall
learn with astonishment, how dearly you
prize the inheritance of your fathers.

18 Now when Lawrence had made an end
of speaking, they sat the destroying engines
to work, and rushed one upon another like
fierce tigers.

19 The fire and smoke were abundant, and
tremendous was the noise that floated upon
the waters round about,

20 And the Chesapeake fell close upon
the Shannon, swords clashed with swords,
and pikes with pikes ; and dreadful was the
conflict thereof.

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21 But the men of Broke were more nu-
merous than the men of Lawrence, and
overpowered them, by the means of their
numbers.

22 Already had the valiant Lawrence
fallen ; his life-blood flowed fast ; still he
cried out to his brave companions, saying
unto them, Don't give up the ship : his noble
spirit fled, but his name shall not perish.

23 Moreover, about this time all the offi-
cers of the ship of the United States were
either slain or sorely wounded ; so she was
captured by the vessel of the king.

24 After which the wickedness of barbari-
ans again came forth ; to be conquerors was
not enough : but they were vain-glorious
and overjoyed, and so became prodigal in
spilling the blood of their prisoners.

25 Satan rose up in their hearts, and they
shot the balls of death down into the hold of
the vessel of the United States, even against
the halt and maimed who had surrendered
themselves.

26 And when the tidings thereof reached
the kingdom of Great Britain, the lords, the
princes, the rulers, yea, all the people were
rejoiced beyond measure.

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27 And they bid their roaring engines ut-
ter their voices, in London, their chief city,
that had been silent many years, even those
in the great tower,* which wasbuiit by Wil-
liam the conqueror, more than seven hun-
dred years ago.

28 Their joy was unbounded, for they
had overcome one of the strong ships of Co-
lumbia.

29 Now the slain and the wounded on
board the Chesapeake, were an hundred two
score and four ; and there fell of the servants
of the king about two hundred.

30 Amongst the slain of Columbia were
also Augustus, whose sur-name was Ludlow,
and another brave officer whose name was
While.

31 And when the people of Columbia
heard of a truth that Lawrence was slain,
they mourned for him many day9.

32 His body was conveyed to a place
called Halifax, in the province of the king,
where they honored his name, and buried
him for a while.

* On this occasion they fired their tower guns, which had not
been done since Nelson's victory.

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33 But in process of time his body was
taken out of the earth, likewise the body of
Ludlow, and conveyed to the city of New-
York.

34 And the captain's name who brought
the bodies away from Halifax, was Crownm-
skidd.

35 So Lawrence wTas buried in the burial-
place of his fathers, in his own land : and a
great multitude of people went out to behold
the funeial as it passed through the city.

36 And his valiant deeds shall live in the
remembrance of the people.

37 About this time, on the fourth day of
the month, the brave Decatur essayed to go
forthwith his vessels upon the waters of the
mighty deep,

38 And the vessels that were with him
were called the United States , the Hornet, and
the Macedonian; a strong ship which he had
captured from the king.

39 But it was so, that some large vessels
of Britain, carrying each of them more than
seventy of the destroying engines, suffered
him not to go forth.

40 Moreover, they wished to retake the

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Macedonian, that they might retrieve the
shame of the capture thereof.

40 So the ships of Britain blockaded De-
catur and his ships in the haven of New-
London, being in the latitude of blue-lights,
which lieth in the state of Connecticut,
nigh unto a place called Stonington, and they
remained there many months.

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CHAP. XXV.

Capture of Col. Boerstler and Major Chapin,
with their command — treatment of prisoners
— Major Chopin's escape.

JN OW there was much hard fighting on the
borders, for the nations were wroth against
one another, and many men were slain by the
sword.

2 (But it is written in the book of Jere-
miah the prophet, that, He who is slain by
the sword, is better than he who is slain by
famine.)

3 Nevertheless, many of the soldiers of
Columbia suffered by the means thereof, for
the cruelty of Britain hath not been exceed-
ed by any.

4 Inasmuch, as they gave unto them who
fell into their hands unwholesome food, and
a scanty fare.

5 But when the servants of the king be-
came captives to the people of Columbia,

13?

they were kindly treated, and partook of
the fat of the land.

6 Now it came to pass, in the second year
of the war, on the twenty-third day of the
sixth month,

7 That a captain of the United States.,
whose sur-name was Boerstler, was ordered
to go forth from the slrong hold of Fort
George, to annoy the enemy.

8 And the name of the place where he es-
sayed to go, was called JB caver-dams, being
distant from the strong hold of Qiieenstown
about seventy furlongs.

9 And the number of the men of war of
Columbia who followed after him was little
more than five hundred.

10 But when they came nigh unto the
place, early in the morning of the next day,
lo ! they were encompassed round about by
the savages and soldiers of the king.

1 1 Nevertheless, they fought bravely for
a time, and Dearborn, the chief captain of
Fort George, sent the valiant Chrystie to
help him out of his snare.

12 But Boerstler and his army had al-
ready become captive to the men of Britain.

13 And they made a covenant in writing,

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between one another, but the men of Britain
violated the covenant.

14 Inasmuch as they permitted the sava-
ges to rob the officers of their swords, and
their apparel, yea, even the shoes from off
their feet.

15 After which the men of Columbia
were commanded to go in boats, down to the
strong hold of Kingston, in the province of
the king.

16 But a certain brave captain, called
Chapin,* a cunning man withal, made his es-
cape in a boat, and arrived at the strong hold
of Fort George ; having, by the strength of
his single arm, overpowered three of the
strong men of Britain.

* Major Chapin.

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CHAP. XXVI.

Capture of Fort Schlosser and Black Rock —
Gen. Dearborn resigns his command to Gen.
Boyd, on account of sickness — star nations
declare war against Canada.

AND it came to pass, on the fourth day of
the seventh month, which is the birth day of
Columbian Liberty and Independence,

2 In the dark and solemn hour of the
night, when the deadly savage walketh
abroad, and the hungry wolves howl along
the forest,

3 A band of the men of Britain crossed
over the water from Chippawa to a place
called Fort Schlosser,

4 And there was a handful of the men of
the United States in the place, whom they
made captive, being twelve in number.

5 Likewise, they carried away the bread
and the meat, and some of the strong waters ;
also one of the destroying engines.

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6 Moreover, the engine which they
brought away was made partly of brass,
partly of iron, and partly of wood.

7 And the weight of the ball that issued
out of its mouth was about two hundred she-
kels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

8 On the tenth day of the same month
they also passed over the river Niagara, to-
wards a place called Black Rock, and the
small band at the place fled.

9 And they destroyed the strong house,
and the camp with fire, and carried away the
flour, and the salt, and such things as they
stood in need of.

10 However, while they were yet carry-
ing them away, there came a band of men of
the United States, from the village of Buf-
faloe,

11 And let their instruments of war loose
upon them ; and smote them even unto
death ; albeit, those who were not slain es-
caped with their plunder.

12 And they fled hastily away, leaving
nine of their slain behind, and more than half
a score of captives.

13 The soldiers of the king were com-
manded by two men, the one called Bishop

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and the other Warren, and the men of
Columbia were commanded by a chief
captain, named Porter.*

14 About this time the savages and the
men of war of Britain assailed the guards
and the out-posts near unto Fort George.

1*5 Day after day and night after night
did they annoy them ; and many were slain
on both sides.

J 6 And Dearborn, the chief captain of the
fort, and of the host of Columbia round
about Niagara, became sick and unable to
go out to battle.

17 So Boyd, a brave and tried warrior,
was made chief captain in his stead, until
Wilkinson, the chief captain, arrived : and
the gallant Fraser was appointed one of his
aids.

18 Now there were some amongst the
tribes of the savages, who had been instruct-
ed in the ways of God, and taught to walk
in the path of righteousness ;

19 For the chief governor of the land of

Gen. P. B. Porter,

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Columbia, and the great Sanhedrim of the
people, had taken them under their care,

20 And sent good men amongst them to
preach the gospel, and instruct them in the
sublime doctrine of the Saviour of the world.

21 And they hearkened unto the preach-
ers, and were convinced, and their natures
were softened.

22 Amongst these tribes were those who
were called, the Six nations of New-York
Indians :

23 And their eyes were opened, and
they saw the evil and the wickedness of
Britain.

24 So their chiefs and their counsellors
rose up and made war against the province
of Canada, and fought against the hired sa-
vages of the king of Britain.

25 But in all their acts they suffered not
the spirit of barbarians to rule over them.

26 They remembered the good counsel
given to them by their aged chief.*

* Alluding to an eloquent speech, delivered about tbat
time, to the Six Nations, by one of their old warriors.

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27 And when the red savages and the
men of Britain fell into their hands, they
raised neither the tomahawk nor the scalp-
ing knife.

28 Nay, they treated them kindly; and
those who were slain in battle they disturbed
not ; and their humanity exceeded the hu-
tyianity of the white men of Britain.

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CHAP. XXVIL

Affairs on Lake Ontario, between the fleets of
Com. Chauncey and Sir James Yeo.

IN those days, the great waters of the lake
Ontario were troubled with the movements
of the fighting ships of Columbia, as well as
those of the king.

2 Now the fleet of the king, which was
commanded by Yeo, who was a skilful cap-
tain, was greater than the fleet of Columbia,
which was commanded by the brave Chaun-
e,ey.

3 And they had contrived to move to and
fro upon the bosom of the lake Ontario many
months,

4 And two of the small vessels, called the
Julia and the Growler, being parted from
the fleet, fell into the hands of Yeo.

5 Nevertheless, Chauncey followed after
Yeo, and hemmed him in for a time.

6 But a strong west wind arose and the
fleets were again separated.

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7 After this Chauncey captured a number
of small fighting vessels, and about three
hundred soldiers of the king.

8 Now it was so, that when Yeo put his
fleet in battle array, as though he would
fight,

9 Then Chauncey went out against him,
to meet him, and give him battle ; but the
heart of Yeo failed him, and he turned aside
from the ships of Columbia.

10 So Chauncey sailed along the borders
of the lake, from the one end to the other ;
even from Niagara to Sackett's Harbor, and
Yeo followed him not.

11 Now all the vessels of the king, and all
the vessels of the United States, that carried
the destroying engines, upon the lake Onta-
rio, being numbered were about seventeen.

12 Howsoever, they cut down the tall
trees of the forest, and hewed them, and built
many more strong vessels ; although they had
no gophar-wood amongst them in these days.

1 3 And they made stories to them, even
to the third story, and they put windows in
them, and they pitched them within and
without will) pitch; after the fashion of the
ark.

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14 And, io ! some of the ships which they
built upon the lake, carried about an hundred
of the engines of death.

] 5 And the weight of a ball which they
Yomited forth was about a thousand shekels.

16 Now the rest of the acts of Chauncey
and Yeo. which they did, are they not writ-
ten in the book of Palmer, the scribe ?*

* Historical Register, an excellent publication, in 4 vols, oc-
tavo, printed in Philadelphia, 1816 ; which contains the facts
and the official documents of the late >var.

5^:

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CHAP. XXVIII.

Affairs on Lake Champlain — pillage of
Platlsburgk by the British — bombardment
of Burlington — depredations committed in
the Chesapeake, and along the coast.

JN OW the fighting vessels of Britain began
to appear npon the lake, called, by the an-
cient Gauls, Champlain.

2 And the vessels of war of Columbia that
were upon the waters of the lake were not
yet prepared for battle ; the name of the
commander whereof was JSFDonougli, (a
stripling).

3 So it came to pass, on the thirty and first
day of the seventh month, that the vessels of
the king came forward against Plattsburgh,
which lieth on the borders of the lake.

4 And there were none to defend the
place ; for the army of Hampton, a chief cap-
tain of the United States, was encamped upon
the opposite side of the lake, at a place call-
ed Burlington, in the state of Vermont.

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5 And the number of the soldiers of the
king that landed at Plattsburgh was more
than a thousand men, and the name of their
chief captain was Murray.

6 And a captain of the United States,
whose name was Mooers, a man of valor,
strode to gather together the husbandmen of
the place, but they were not enough.

7 So the army of the king captured the
place ; and the men of Columbia fled before
the men of war of Britain.

8 Moreover, the wickedness which had
been committed at Hampton, was noised
abroad, even from the shores of Virginia
to lake Champlain.

9 Accordingly all the women and chil-
dren, who were able, suddenly departed from
the place, lest the same thing might, perad-
venture, happen unto them.

10 Neither were they deceived in judg-
ment ; for, lo ! when the place was given up,
and a covenant made, the servants of the
king proved faithless.

1 1 They abided not by the contract ; say-
ing, Pish ! ye are but Yankees, therefore will
we do to you as seemeth meet unto us !

12 So they burnt the houses, and all other

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things belonging to the United States, witb
fire.

13 After which they fell upon the mer-
chandise, the goods, and the chatties of all
manner of persons ; nay, the persons of some
of the women were abused :

14 Meanwhile they forced others to put
the burning brand to their own dwellings ;
or pay them tribute.

15 They killed the cattle, and prepared
them food ; and after they had eaten and
drank, they overturned the tables.

16 So when their vengeance was comple-
ted, they departed to other places and com-
mitted like evils.

17 About the same time the vessels of the
king, that sailed on the lake, went against
the town of Burlington ; where the army of
Hampton was.

18 But when the men of Columbia began
to let the destroying engines loose upon
them from the strong hold before the town,
they fled in dismay.

19 Now while these things were passing
in the north, Ihe greedy sons of Britain were
laying desolate the small vil lages of the south.

20 On the waters of the Chesapeake they

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captured the small vessels and made spoil
thereof.

21 Moreover, they gat possession of a
Small place called Kent Island, and robbed
the poor and needy ; for there was no mercy
in them.

22 Yea, it was said of a truth, and talked
abroad, that they came in the night time, and
disturbed the small cattle, and the fowls, and
took them for their own use, and crawled
away like men ashamed ;

23 Thus committing a sin, by violating the
eighth commandmant of God, which saith,

THOD SHALT NOT STEAL.

24 Even the state of North-Carolina es-
caped them not ; they landed a thousand
men of war at a place called Ocracocke.

25 And again the work of destruction be-
gan ; they spread terror and dismay whither-
soever they went.

26 They troubled the men of Columbia
all along the sea coast, which is more than
eight thousand furlongs, from north to south.

27 Moreover, they gat much plunder;
even much of the good things with which the
land of Columbia aboundeth.

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CHAP. XXIX.

Major Croghan defeats the British and In-
dians, under Gen. Proctor, in their attack
on Fort Stephenson, Lower Sandusky.

Nevertheless, it came to pass, that

Harrison, the chief captain of the north west
army, had placed a captain, a young man, in
the hold called Fort Stephenson, to defend it.

2 Now the fort lieth at the western end of
the great lake Erie, at a place called San-
dusky.

3 And the number of the soldiers that
were with the youth in the hold, was about
an hundred and three score, and they had
only one of the destroying engines.

4 Now the name of the young man was
George, and his sur-name was Croghan.

5 So on the first day of the eighth month,
about the going down of the sun, a mighty
host from J^lalden appeared before the holdk

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6 Even a thousand savages, and about five
hundred men of war of Britain ; and Proctor
was the commander thereof,

7 Moreover, they brought the instruments
of destruction in great plenty ; even howitzers,
which were not known in the days of the
children of Israel.

8 And they had prepared themselves for
the fight, and encompassed the place round
about, both by land and by water.

9 After which Proctor sent a message to
the brave Croghan, by a captain whose name
was Elliot, and the words thereof were in
this sort :

10 Lo ! now ye can neither move to the
right nor to the left, to escape, for we have
bemmed you in ;

1 1 Therefore, that your blood may not
be spilt in vain, we command that ye give up
the strong hold into the hands of the servants
©f the king, and become captives.

12 We have the destroying engines in
abundance, and we are a numerous host.

13 Furthermore, if ye refuse then shall
the wild savages be let loose upon you ; and
there shall be none left among you to go
and tell the titungs thereof.

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14 But when Croghan heard the message,
he answered and said unto Elliot, Get thee
now to thy chief captain, and say unto
him, I refuse ; neither will 1 hearken unto
him :

15 And if it be so, that he come against
me with his whole host, even then will I
not turn aside from the fierce battle ; though
his numbers were as the sand on the sea
shore.

16 Lol David, of old, with a sling and a
stone slew the mighty Goliah: and shall the
people of Columbia be afraid, and bow be-
fore the tyrants of Europe ?

17 Then Elliot returned to the army of
the king ; and immediately the mouths of
their engines were opened against the fort.

18 And the noise thereof continued a long
time ; even until the next day ; but their bat-
tering prevailed not.

19 Now when Proctor saw it was of no
avail, he divided his host into two bands,
and appointed a captain to each band ; and
they moved towards the fort and assailed it
with great violence.

20 But the men of Croghan were pre«
pared for them ; and they let loose their

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weapons of war upon them, and set their
destroying engine to work, and smote the
men of Britain, hip and thigh, with great
slaughter.

21 And the deep ditch that surrounded
the fort was strewn with their slain and their
wounded.

22 So the host of Britain were dismayed
and overthrown, and fled in confusion from
the fort into the forest ; from whence, in the
dead of the night, they went into their ves-
sels, and departed from the place.

23 Now the loss of the men of Britain was
about an hundred two score and ten ; and of
the men of Columbia there was one slain
and seven wounded.

24 But when Proctor had rested his army
he sent a skilful physician to heal the maim-
ed which he had fled from and left behind.

25 But Harrison, the chief captain said
unto him, Already have my physicians bound
up their wounds, and given them bread and
wine, and comforted them ; after the manner
of our country.

26 For we suffer not the captives that
fall into our hands to be buffeted or mal-
treated 5 neither want they for any thing.

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27 So the physician of the king's army
was permitted to return to his own camp.

28 Moreover, great honor and praise were
bestowed upon the brave Croghan, the cap-
tain of the fort, for his valiant deeds; and hie
name was spoken of with joy throughout the
land of Columbia,

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CHAP. XXX.

British schooner Dominica; of 14 guns, cap'
tured by the privateer Decatur, of 7 guns —
XJ. 8. brig Argus captured by the Pelican —
capture of the Boxer by the U* S. brig En-
terprise,

JN OW the war continued to rage without
abatement upon the waters of the great
deep ;

2 And manifold were the evils that came
upon the children of men by the means
thereof.

3 Moreover, the great Sanhedrim of the
people were forced to bestir themselves ; and
they had continued their councils day after
day without ceasing.

4 And it came to pass, that there was a
dreadful battle fought between a vessel of
the king, and a private vessel of Columbia.

5 Now the name of the vessel that fought
was Decatur, and the captain's name was JOir
ron, a GauL

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6 And it was so, that about the fourth day
of the eighth month, the Decatur having sail-
ed out of the haven of Charleston, being in
the state of South Carolina, fell in with one
of the fighting vessels of the king, called the
Dominica.

7 But the destroying engines of the king's
vessel were two-fold greater in numbers
than those of the Decatur.

8 Nevertheless, they set them to work,
so that they groaned beneath the fire and
smoke ;

9 And in about the space of an hour the
Dominica was conquered and taken captive.

10 For when the vessels came close to-
gether, the men smote one another with
their swords and weapons of war; yea, even
the balls of iron they cast at each other, with
their hands, and slew one another with won-
derful slaughter.

11 Inasmuch as there were slain and
maimed of the king three score souls ; those
of the Decatur were about a score : more-
over the captain of the Dominica was slain.

12 The fight was an unequal one ; and
the bravery of Diron gained him a great
name, for he overcame the enemies of free-

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dona ; although their force was greater than
his.

13 After this, on the fourteenth day of the
same month, there was another sore battle
between a small vessel of the United States,
called the Argus, and the Pelican, a ship of
the king.

14 Now the Pelican was somewhat strong-
er than the Argus, and they were stubborn
and kept the destroying engines to work,
with great noise, about forty and five minutes.

15 And the brave captain of the Argus,
whose name was Allen, was wounded unto
death, and the vessel of Columbia was cap-
tured by the ship of Britain, the name of the
commander whereof was Maples.

16 Of the men of Columbia six were slain
and seventeen wounded ; of the men of Bri-
tain the slain and wounded were five.

17 Now the death of Allen was spoken of
with sorrow throughout the land of Colum-
bia, for he had defended the vessel of the
United States nobly : and captured some
merchant ships of Britain.

18 Even the enemy regarded him for his
bravery, for they buried him with honor in
their own country, not far from the place

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where he became captive, which was in the
waters of the king, even in St. George's
Channel.

19 But it came to pass, on the fifth day of
the next month, in the same year,

20 That a certain small vessel of Colum-
bia, carrying the engines of destruction, com-
manded by a gallant man, whose name was
Burrows, fell in with another small vessel of
the king, called the Boxer, and the captain
thereof was a brave man, and his name was
Blythe.

21 In the language of the people of the
land, the vessel of Columbia was called the
Enterprise.

22 Now when the vessels drew nigh un-
to each other the men shouted with loud
shouting.

23 And immediately they let the mischie
vous engines loose upon one another, with a
noise like unto thunder.

24 But it happened, that in about the
space of forty minutes, the Boxer was over-
come ; but she was taken somewhat unawares:

25 For, lo ! the pride of the men of Bri-
tain had made them foolish ; and, thinking of
conquest, they nailed Britannia's red-crosp

to the mast of the vessel.
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26 Whereupon, after they were over-
come, they cried aloud for mercy, saying,

27 Behold ! our colors are fast ; and we
cannot quickly unloose them : neverthe-
less, we will be prisoners unto you, there-
fore spare us.

28 So the brave mariners of Columbia
spared them, and stopped the destroying en-
gines; for their hearts were inclined to mercy.

29 However, this was another bloody fight;
for there fell of the men of Britain forty that
were slain outright, and seventeen were
wounded.

30 And the loss of Columbia in slain and
maimed was about fourteen.

31 And the commanders of both vessels
were slain ; and they buried them with honor
in the town of Portland, which leaveth Boston
to the west; for the battle was fought hard by.

32 Moreover, the great Sanhedrim was
pleased with the thing, and gave unto the
kinsman of Burrows a medal of gold, in to-
ken of remembrance thereof.*

* Mathew L. Davis, of New-York, passing by and observ-
ing the burial place of Burrows, stopt and ordered a monument
to be erected to his memory at his own private expense.

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CHAP. XXXI.

The capture of the British Fleet on Lake Erie,
by the American Fleet under Com. Perry*

JL HE Lord, in the plenitude of his wisdom
and power, ordaineth all things which come
to pass : and the doings are for the benefit of
man, and for the glory of God.

2 For where is the evil which hath not
turned to an advantage, and been a warning,
and swallowed up the evil that might have
come?

3 J\Tow about this time the strong vessels
of Columbia, that moved upon the face of
the blue waters of the great lake Erie, were
given in charge to Oliver, whose sur-name
was Perry.

4 And he was a prudent man, and had
prepared himself to meet the vessels of the
king, even forty days before hand.

5 And the name of the captain of the fleet
®f Britain was Barclay, a man of great valor;

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but he boasted and was vain of his fleet,
for it was more powerful than the fleet of
Columbia.

6 Nevertheless, it came to pass, in the one
thousand eight hundred and thirteenth year,
on the tenth day of the ninth month, early
in the morning, about the rising of the sun,

7 The valiant Perry beheld the fleet of the
lung at a distance upon the lake ; so he un-
moored his vessel and went out to meet them
in battle array, fleet against fleet.

8 And when their white sails were spread
upon the bosom of the lake, they appeared
like unto a squadron of passing clouds.

9 A gentle breeze wafted the hostile ves-
sels towards one another.

10 It was silence upon the waters; save
when the sound of musical instruments fell
sweetly upon the ear.

11 But it happened, a little before the
mid-day, that the shouts of the men of war of
Britain were heard, and the shouts of the
men of Columbia.

12 And now the destroying engines be-
gan to utter their thunders, vomiting forth
fire and smoke and brimstone in abundance.

13 And suddenly the waters were in an

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uproar ; and the bellowing noise sounded
along the lake.

14 Moreover, the chief force of the ships
of the king was put against the vessel ia
which Perry was ;

15 And the vessel was called the La«/<
rence, after a brave man, whose dying words
waved upon her, aloft :

16 Now, behold, a thousand balls of iron,
skim the surface of the waters, swift as
shooting stars.

17 But when the battle waxed hot, and
Perry saw that the tackling of his vessel was
shot away, and his men were slain and
wounded with great slaughter, and his des-
troying engines became silent,

1 8 He put the charge of the vessel into
the hands of one of his officers, whose name
was Yarnelly a trusty man :

19 Then, with the starry banner of Co-
lumbia in his hand, did the gallant Perry
leap into his cock-boat, while his brave mari-
ners quickly conveyed him to another fight-
ing vessel of the United States, called the
JSiiagara, commanded by a valiant man
whose name was Elliot.

80 After this again the vessels uttered

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their thunders and fought hard, and the men
of Columbia poured out destruction upon
the servants of the king.

21 And it came to pass, that the skilful
contrivance of Perry, and the bravery of
his men, at length forced the whole fleet of
the king to become captive, even unto the
cock-boats of Columbia.

22 Thus again was the mighty lion hum-
bled before the eagle: for six strong vessels
of Britain were overcome at one time.

23 And the slain and wounded of the
king that day, was an hundred thirty and
iive ; besides there were about a thousand
prisoners.

24 The loss of the United States was
twenty and seven that were killed, and four
score and ten were wounded.

25 Moreover, the number of the men of
Britain made captive was more than all the
men of Perry's squadron.

26 Now Perry was a righteous man, and,
like the good Samaritan, took care of the
halt and maimed, and put skilful men to
bind up their wounds ; and the men of Bri-
tain blessed lam,

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27 Neither was he a man puffed up with
vanity, even in the hour of victory :

28 For when he had conquered the fleet of
Britain, he wrote to Jones,* one of the
scribes of the great Sanhedrim, with modes-
ty, saying,

29 To day it hath pleased the Lord that
the people of Columbia should triumph over
their enemies.

30 At the same time he wrote to Harri-
son, the chief captain of the host of Colum-
bia, whose army was at the bay of Sandusky,
saying, We have met the enemy, and they
are ours !

31 Then did the enemies of Columbia
weep ; and the gainsayer put on deep
mourning.

32 Moreover, the great Sanhedrim honor-
ed Perry with great honor; yea, they thanked
him, and gave him medals, with devices cu-
riously wrought.

33 Likewise, the people gave him much
silver plate, with gravings thereon, men-
tioning his deeds.

* W. Jones, Secretary of the Navy.

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34 And the bye-slander might read hit
triumph in his country's eyes.

35 His sons shall hear him spoken of with
pleasure ; and his name shall be mentioned
in the song of the virgins.

36 Where, oh ! Albion, are now thy
mighty admirals ? where thy Nelson ? where
the transcendant glory they gained for thee ?

37 Alas ! it hath expired upon the waters
of Erie, before the destroying engines of
Perry !

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CHAP. XXXII.

Capture of Maiden and Detroit — the army of
Gen. Proctor retreat towards the Moravian
towns — Gen. Harrison pursues them.

iN OW when Perry bad taken care of the
captives, and the wounded, and set them up-
on the shore,

2 He began to convey the army of Har-
rison from Fort Meigs and round about.

3 And having gathered them together in-
to his vessels, he brought them, and landed
them nigh unto the strong hold of Maiden.

4 And it came to pass, on the twenty-
third day of the same month, in which Perry
conquered the fleet of Britain,

5 That Harrison, the chief captain, began
to march the host of Columbia against the
strong hold of Maiden, and captured a town
called Amherstburgh, nigh thereunto.

6 Now Proctor was tfie chief captain of
the savages and servantsof the king.

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7 And when he saw the men of Columbia
approach, he destroyed the fort, the tents,
and the store-houses of the king, and, with
his whole host, fled swiftly towards Sand-
wich.

8 And Harrison, and the host of Colum-
bia, followed hard after him.

9 Now when the savages of the wilder-
ness beheld the men of Britain flee before
the children of Columbia, their spirits sunk,
and they were sore amazed.*

10 Moreover, they upbraided the ser-
vants of the king, saying, Lo ! ye have de-
ceived us, and led us from our hunting
grounds, and we are an hungered:

1 1 For, verily, ye promised us bread and
wine,f and silver and gold ; yea, even that
we should drink of the strong waters of Ja-
maica, if we would go out with you and
fight the battles of the king, against the men
of Columbia.

12 But, behold! now ye would run away
and leave us to fight alone.

* See Tecumseh's letter to Proctor.

f At this time it will be remembered the British army irere
abort of supplies.

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13 Whereupon many of their tribes cast
away their tomahawks, and refused to fight
under the banners of the king.

14 And when Harrison came to Sand-
wich, Proctor and his army had departed
from the place, and fled towards the river
Thames, near Moravian Town.

15 (Now the Thames emptieth its waters
into the lake St. Clair, and the Moravian
Towns lie upon the river, about an hundred
miles from Maiden, towards the north in the
province of Upper Canada.)

16 Moreover, as they journied on, the
brave M* Arthur crossed over with his band
to the strong hold of Detroit, and took it.

17 But the savages and the men of Bri-
tain had destroyed those things which they
could not carry away, and fled in haste.

18 So M'Arthur, in whom the chief cap-
tain put much faith, remained at Detroit in
the charge thereof.

19 And it came to pass, when Harrison
saw that the host of Britain fled before him,
he departed from Sandwich and went after
them ; it being on the second day of the next
month.

20 And his whole army followed after

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turn, in all about three thousand brave men
from the back- woods of the state of Ken-
tucky and the pleasant villages of Ohio.

21 Now Harrison was a mighty man of
valor, and no man could make him afraid ;
and the captains and officers that were with
him were all valiant men.

22 And, when some of his captains said
unto him, Lo ! there is a feast to-day ; go
thou and partake thereof, and refresh thy-
self, and we will watch ;

23 He answered and said unto them, Nay,
shall I go and riot, whilst the warriors of Co-
lumbia lie on the frozen ground?

24 No, their fate shall be my fate ; and
their glory shall be my glory.

25 So he wrapped himself in his cloak,
and lay down in his own tent.

26 And the husbandmen of Kentucky
were led on by their valiant governor, whose
name was Shelby, and he was a man well
stricken in years ; even at the age of three-
score did he go out against the enemies of
Columbia ; and all the people rejoiced in
him.

27 And the gallant Perry staid hot be-
hind ; but freely offered his strength, and

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was one of the right hand men of Harrison,
with whom he followed after the host of
Britain.

29 Nevertheless, it happened that a band
of the savages strove to give hindrance to
the army of Columbia.

30 But the men of Columbia let two of
the destroying engines loose upon them, and
they fled into the wilderness like wild deer.

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CHAR XXXIIL

Battle of the Thames — Gen. Harrison cap*
tures the British army under Gen. Proc-
tor— illuminations on account of it — news of
it received in England.

A.ND it came to pass, on the fifth day of
the same month, that Proctor, with the sava-
ges and the army of the king, rested upon
advantageous ground, on the banks of the
river Thames,

2 Where he drew his army up in the or-
der of battle, after the fashion of these days,
and prepared himself to meet the host of Co-
lumbia.

3 Now the army of Proctor was mighty;
for he had a thousand horsemen : but the
number of the savages that followed after
him* are not known to this time ; howbeit,
they were many.

4 And they were under the charge of a
chief warrior, whom they called Tecumseh, a

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savage whom the king had made a chief
captain.*

5 And it came to pass, on the same day,
in the latter part of the day, the army of
Harrison drew nigh unto the place.

6 And he called together his captains of
fifties, and his squadrons, and encouraged
them, and commanded them to prepare
themselves for the fight.

7 And he put the host of Columbia in
battle array against the host of Britain, army
against army.

8 Now the sound of the trumpet, the cym-
bal, the bugle-horn, and the noisy drum,
echoed through the deep wilderness.

9 And the red savages appeared in the
field before the men of Britain, for they had
put them, as a shield, in the front of the
battle.

10 And they yelled with dreadful vei-
lings, and sounded aloud the war-whoop^
which was the signal of death.

1 1 But the army of Columbia rushed up-
on them with the fierceness of lions.

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12 And the weapons of war were used
without mercy ; the foxes and the beavers
crept into their holes, for the destroying en-
gines frightened the wild beasts, so that they
looked for their hiding places.

13 The gallant Johnson* fell upon them
with a band of chosen horsemen, and he
drove them before him like chaff before the
wind, and smote their chief warrior, f and
slew him with his own hand, so that he fell
to the earth.

44 And the host of Columbia assailed the
men of Britain on all sides, and overcame
them and made them prisoners of war ;
whereupon the engines ceased to utter their
thunders.

15 Howbeit, Proctor escaped, on a swift
running horse, with a handful of his captains
that were under him.

16 Now the number of prisoners captured
by the army of Harison that day were about
six hundred.

* Col. Johnson, of the Kentucky light-horse.

| Tecumseh : who was at that moment in the act of shooting
ihe colonel.

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17 And the slain and wounded of the
men of Britain were thirty and three ; and
the same number of savages were slain.

18 Of the army of Columbia seven were
slain and two score and two were wounded.

19 But the men of Kentucky and Ohio,
whose sons and brothers and fathers had been
inhumanly slaughtered at the River Raisin,
slew not a single captive.

20 But they treated them as men; thus
doing good for evil ; according to the word
of the Lord.

21 Moreover, they captured six of. the
destroying engines that were made of brass,
and two that were made of iron; besides
many weapons of war.

22 Now three of the brass engines were
those given to the men of Britain, at the cap-
ture of Detroit, the first year of the war, and
were the same that had been taken from the
king in the days of Washington.

23 Soon after the battle, Harrison return-
ed with his army to Detroit, where many of
the savages had assembled, to repent of their
evils, and ask for mercy from the chief cap-
tain.

24 So Harrison made a covenant with

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them, and they were thankful, and gave him
hostages.

25 Now there were great rejoicings
among the children of Columbia, and the
hearts of the people of the United States
were exceeding glad.

26 So that when the news thereof reached
them they drank wine ; and when the even-
ing came they lighted their candles, and put
them in candlesticks of silver and candle-
sticks of gold.

27 And there were many thousands of
them ; and the light thereof was as though
the stars had fallen from heaven.

28 This did they throughout the land of
Columbia, from the district of Maine, in the
east, to the state of Georgia, in the south.

29 But the sect of the tories shut their
eyes ; neither would they go out to behold
the glory of the light thereof.

30 Moreover, when the Prince Regent,
and the chief counsellors, and the wise men
of Britain, heard the tidings, for a truth, that
their fleet and their army were captured, they
were astonished beyond measure.

31 They looked at one another like men
who had lost their wits : they were si-

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lent, and their tongues clave to the roof of
their mouths.

32 Their knees smote one against ano-
ther, for the strength of Britain was shaken ;
her valiant warriors lost their honor j* and
her glory was outshone.

33 Now there were great honor and praise
bestowed upon Harrison for his courage,
and his valiant acts -r and the people remem-
bered his name with pleasure.

34 Moreover, he gave great praise to
Shelby, the governor, and Perry, and John-
son, and all the brave men that were with
him.

3/3 And in the same month, when the ob-
ject of the army was fulfilled, the husband-
men of Columbia returned every man to his
own house.

36 But Harrison and Perry, and the band
of warriors of the great Sanhedrim, went in-
to their vessels.

* Doubly lost it : by water and by land ; by being conquered
and by being cruel.

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3? And they moved from Detroit and
came in the ships of Perry to Buffalo,
nigh unto the river Niagara, to meet Wil-
kinson, who came from the south, and was
appointed chief captain of the army of the
centre .

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CHAP. XXXI V.

War with the Creek Nation of Indians — mas-
sacre of Fort Minims — Georgia and Ten-
nessee militia, under General Jackson, re-
taliate*

JN OW it came to pass, while these things
were going on in the north, and the repent-
ant savages laid their murderous weapons at
the feet of Harrison,

2 That the servants of the king were stir-
ring up the spirit of Satan in the savages of
the wilderness of the south ;

3 And placing the destroying engines into
their hands that they might drink the blood
of the people of Columbia.

4 Now those southern barbarians were
called the Creek nation of Indians.

5 Moreover, thev were a nation of savages
that dwelt in the back-woods and the wilder-
ness round about the states of Georgia, Ten-
nessee, and the Mississippi Territori/.

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6 So about this time they took their
weapons of death in their hands, and went
against the strong hold of Fort Minims,
which lieth on a branch of the river Mobile,
which emptieth its waters into the great Gulf
of 31exico.

7 And they captured the place ; and with
the fury of demons they murdered, with
the tomahawk, the men, the women, and the
infants that were in and about the fort,
sparing neither age nor sex ; and slaying the
prisoners that begged for mercy.

8 Ana" the number of the people of Co-
lumbia that were massacred and burnt alive
in their houses, that day, was about four
hundred ; however, there were an hundred
savages slain.

9 For it was a sore fight ; and Beasley, who
commanded the fort, fought hard against
them ; howbeit, he was slain.

10 But it came to pass, in the same year,
that the people of Columbia were revenged
of the evil :

1 L Andrew, whose sur-name was Jackson,
a man of courage and valor, was chief cap-
tain in the south,

12 And he sent out one of his brave cap-

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tains, whose name was Coffee, with a strong
band; even nine hundred mighty horsemen:

13 Now these were the valiant husband-
men of Georgia and the back-woods of Ten-
nessee ; their horses were fleet as the roe-
buck ; their weapons of war were certain
death.

14 So they went forth against a town of
the savages called Tallushatches, on the se-
cond day of the eleventh month.

15 And on the next day they encompassed
the town round abont ; and the savages pre-
pared themselves for battle.

16 About the rising of the sun they sound-
«d their drums, and began their horrible yel-
lings.

17 But they frightened not the hearts of
the brave men of Tennessee.

18 So when Coffee had stationed his cap-
tains and his men of war about the town, in
the order of battle, the whole army shouted
aloud j

19 And the instruments of destruction
were let loose upon them on all sides ; and
they fought with all their might.

20 But the men of Columbia rushed
upon them, and subdued them, and made

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about four score women and children cap-
tive.

21 And slew about two hundred of their
warriors ; leaving not a man to tell the ti-
dings.

22 For, lo ! when the savages of the wil-
derness commit great evils and transgres-
sions against the people of Columbia,

23 The great Sanhedrim of the people
send out mighty armies against them, that
are able to overthrow them, and make their
towns a desolation, and lay waste their habi-
tations.

24 Now the loss of the army of Columbia
that day, was five slain and about forty
wounded.

25 And Jackson, the chief captain, gave
great praise to Coffee, and all the valiant
men that fought that day.

26 On the next day after the battle, the
army of Columbia returned to their camp, at
a place called the I en-Islands.

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€HAP. XXXV.

Continuation of the War with the Creeks — Gen,
Jackson's grand victory over them — they sue
for peace — a treaty is concluded with them.

Notwithstanding their discomfi-
ture, the nation of the Creeks were still bent
on warring against the people of Columbia.

2 And they committed many outrages up-
on the inhabitants of the states round about.

3 But it came to pass, on the seventh day
of the same month, that a messenger came to
Jackson, the chief captain, and spake unto
him, saying :

4 Lo ! even now, more than a thousand
savages have pitched their tents at Talledo-
ga, near the strong hold of Lashley, with in-
tent to assail it.

5 Immediately Jackson took two thousand
hardy men, who were called volunteers, be-
cause they fought freely for their country?
and led them against the savages,

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6 Now the men of war that followed after
him were mostly from the state of Tennes-
see, and men of dauntless courage.

7 So, early in the morning of the next
day, the army of Jackson drew nigh the
pJace, in battle array.

8 And the savages came out towards the
army of Columbia, with shouting and yell-
ings : and again the engines of destruction
were used plentifully.

9 And the leaden balls whizzed about
their ears like unto a nest of hornets.

10 But the horsemen, and the whole army
of Jackson, rushed upon the savages, and
slew them with great slaughter, and over-
came them.

11 And the number of savages slain that
day was about three hundred ; and a red-
cross banner of the Spanish nation was found
amongst them and taken.

12 Seventeen of the men of Columbia
were slain, and about four score wounded.

13 So, when the battle was over, Jackson
returned to his own camp.

14 After these things had come to pass,
on the twelfth day of the month, a certain
captain, whose sur-name was White, was sent

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against another place called the Hillabee-
Towns.

15 And, on the eighteenth day of the
same month, he took the towns, and destroy-
ed them, and slew three score of the savages,
and made about two hundred two score and
ten prisoners.

16 About eleven days afterwards, a val-
iant captain, whose name was Floyd, with his
brave men, went against the towns of Autos*
see and Tallisee, which lie on the banks of the
river Tallapoosie.

17 And Floyd went against them with
boldness, and triumphed over them, and kill-
ed about two hundred of them, and burned
their towns with fire, and slew the king of
Autossee, and the king of Tallisee, who were
the kings of two tribes.

18 Moreover, on the thirteenth day of the
next month, Claiborne, a governor, and a
man of valor, went against the savages that
dwelt on the river Alabama ;

19 And he marched with his army through
the wilderness more than an hundred miles,
to a town built upon a place called by the
savages the Holy-ground, where three of the
Indian prophets dwelt.

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20 Now there were lying prophets among
the savages, even as there were in the days
of old ; and they prophesied according to
their own wishes ;

21 And those of shallow understanding
believed them, and were led into a snare,
whereby their whole tribe was nigh being
destroyed.

22 And Wether ford, the chief warrior of
the Creek nation, was there also with his
band.

23 And he fought hard against Claiborne ;
but he was overthrown, and fled, and the
town was burnt, even two hundred houses.

24 After all these tribulations, the depre-
dations of the savages of the south were not
stayed.

25 So Jackson, the chief captain, went out
against them with his army, and attacked
them at their strong hold on the waters of
the Tallapoosie, where they were entrench-
ed, having more than a thousand warriors.

26 'Now this was on the twenty and se-
venth day of the third month, in the one
thousand eight hundred and fourteenth year
of the age of Christianity.

27 And Jackson set his destroying engines

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to work, and fought desperately against
them, for about the space of five hours;
when he overcame them, so that only about
a score escaped.

28 Seven hundred and fifty of the savage
warriors were found slain in battle ; and two
hundred two score and ten women and chil-
dren became captives to the army of Co-
lumbia.

29 Manahoee, their chief prophet, was
smitten in the mouth, and slain, and two other
false prophets were slain with him.

30 Moreover, about the first day of the
sixth month, a brave man, whose name was
Pearson, with the husbandmen of the states
of Aorlh and South Carolina, went against
them along the borders of the Alabama, and
captured about six hundred of them.

31 Thus did the men of Columbia triumph
over them, and conquer them, even to the
seventh time.

32 And so the judgment of the Lord fell
upon them for their unrighteousness, and for
their wicked and murderous deeds.

33 After which they repented of their
evil, having, through their own folly, lost

many thousand warriors.

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34 And the chief warriors gave up their
instruments of destruction, and laid them at
the feet of Jackson, the chief captain.

35 Even Wetherford, the chief warrior,
gave himself up to Jackson, saying, I fought
with my might ; but I have brought evil upon
my nation ; and thou hast slain my warriors;
and I am overcome.

36 Now the savages are easily inflamed
and roused to works of sin and death ; and
of their weakness the servants of the king
are not ashamed to take advantage ; even
to the ruin of the poor and ignorant bar-
barians.

37 So the warriors and the whole nation
of the Creeks, being tired of a destructive
war, entreated the men of Columbia for
peace, saying unto Jackson,

38 Lo ! now are our eyes opened to our
own profit ; now will we make peace with
you.

39 And if ye will no more suffer the fire,
and the sword, and the destroying engines to
jgpread desolation amongst us,

40 Then will we* make a covenant with
you, and give you for an inheritance a great

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part of the land which our fathers inherited
before us.

41 And the length and the breadth there-
of shall be about as large as the whole island
of Britain, whose men of war have led us
into this snare.

42 For although the king, who calleth
himself our father, across the great waters,
did put the instruments of death into our
hands, and give us the black dust in abun-
dance ; nevertheless he deceived us ; and in
the hour of danger his servants left us to take
care of ourselves.

*^>^43 So Jackson made a covenant with them ,
ano*rfrw«^signed by the chiefs of their natio«.
44 And after it had been examined by the
wise men and the great Sanhedrim of the
people, it was signed with the hand-writing
of James, the chief governor of the land of
Columbia.

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CHAP. XXXVI.

Plan of attack on Montreal defeated.

1 HE frailty of man speaketh volumes : one
man accuseth another ; but where is he who
is perfect?

2 Man deviseth mighty plans in his own
mind, but he accomplisheth them not.

3 He is wise in his own conceit, but his
wisdom faileth him : he seeth folly in others,,
but perceiveth not his own ; he is as a reed
shaken with the wind.

4 Now the country of Columbia was assail-
ed on every side by the enemies of freedom:

5 And in the hope that the war might
speedily cease, and an end be made of the
shedding of blood, the great Sanhedrim of
the people wished to push their armies into
the heart of the proyinces of the king, even
to Montreal.

6 So they pitched upon certain chief cap-
tains, who were well skilled in the arts of

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warfare ; and Wilkinson and Hampton were
the names of the captains ;

7 And Brown, and Boyd, and Covington,
and Swift, and Coles, and Purdy, and !?«/>-
&y, and Swarttvout, and Fraser, and many
others, were valiant captains under them.

8 Not many days after Harrison returned
from his triumph over Proctor's army ; and
in the same year, it came to pass that Wil-
kinson conveyed his army from Fort George
and the country of Niagara, to Sackett's
Harbor, at the east end of lake Ontario ;
leaving Harrison and M'Clure behind, at
the strong hold of Fort George.

9 From Sackett's Harbor Wilkinson
moved to a place called Grenadier Island ;
and in the first week of the eleventh month
he arrived at Ogdensbnrgh, in order to go
against the strong hold of Montreal.

10 Now the army of Hampton rested
nigh unto lake Champlain ; and about the
same time he moved towards the borders of
the king.

11 And Wilkinson sent a messenger to
him and entreated him to come and meet
him, and join the two armies together at the
village of St. Regis.

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12 The same night Wilkinson with his
army crossed the great river St. Lawrence,
near by the strong hold of Prescot, which li-
eth in the dominions of the king.

13 And he moved down with about six
thousand men towards the hold of Montreal,
until he came to a place called Crysthr's
Farms, near unto Williamsburgh.

14 Now at this place, on the eleventh day
of the eleventh month, a strong band of the
men of war of Britain, from Kingston and
round about, fell upon his army in the rear,
and annoyed them greatly.

15 At length, on the same day, a part of
the army of Columbia turned about, and
fought against them and drove them back ;
however it was a sore fight.

16 Wilkinson, the chief captain who went
before the host of Columbia, had been sick
many days, and was unable to go forth
against them himself.

17 So he sent some of his brave cap-
tains, even Boyd, and Swartwout, and Cov-
ington ; and the engines of destruction were
set to work with great noise and fury ; and
the valiant Covington was wounded unto
death.

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18 Moreover, the loss of the men of Co-
lumbia that day was an hundred slain, and
two hundred two score and ten wounded,
and the loss of the king was about an hun-
dred four score and one.

19 After this battle the army of Wilkin-
son moved along down the St. Lawrence un-
til they came to Barnhearts, near Cornwall,
where they met the valiant Brown.

20 Now this place lieth on the north side
of the river, and on the other side lieth St.
Regis, where Wilkinson, the chief captain,
expected to be joined by the army of Hamp-
ton from Champlain.

21 But in this he was disappointed ; for,
lo ! Hampton sent one of his captains, whose
name was Atkinson, to Wilkinson, with the
tidings that he had declined to meet him,
and was returning to his camp on the lake.

22 Now when the army of Wilkinson
heard those things, they were discouraged ;
and all the plans that were well devised by
Armstrong,* the chief captain, and scribe of
the great Sanhedrim, were of no avail.

23 So the army of Wilkinson crossed the
river again and came into the land of Co-

* Gen. Armstrong, Secretary at War.

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lumbia, at French Mills, near St. Regis;
where they went into winter quarters.

24 And the men of Columbia, even the
great Sanhedrim, were disappointed in their
expectations. v

25 Moreover, Hampton received much
blame in the thing ; and he was even taxed
with the crime of drinking too freely of the
^strong waters.

26 But the imaginary evils which the
children of men commit are oftentimes gra-
ven in brass, whilst their actual good deeds
are written in sand.

27 Neither shall it be forgotten here, that
when the shivering soldiers of Columbia were
suffering with cold in the north,

28 The lovely and patriotic daughters of
Columbia, blest with tenderness, remember-
ed them, and sent them coverings for their
hands and for their feet,

29 Even from the fleece : of their fathers*
flocks, they wrought them with their own
hands, and distributed them with a good heart.

30 And, for their kindness and humanity,
the poor soldier blessed them, and their vir-
tues were extolled by the men of Columbia
throughout the land.

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CHAP. XXXVII.

Newark burnt — Fort George evacuated — Ni-
agar a frontier laid waste — Buffalo burnt,

AN the meantime, however, the strong ves-
sels of Chauncey went out and brought Har-
rison, and the remnant of his army, from
Fort George to Sackett's Harbor, to protect
the place.

2 But they left M'Clure behind, with the
men under him ; being for the most part hus-
bandmen, called militia, and volunteers.

3 And they were eager to be led onto the
battle ; but the term for which their services
were engaged expired, and they returned
every man to his own house.

4 So M'Clure, the chief captain of the
fort, called a council of his officers, and they
agreed to depart to the strong hold of Ni-
agara.

5 And they took their destroying engines
and the black dust, and the bread and meat

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of the army, and carried them across the
river.

6 Likewise they put a lighted match to
the black dust, in the fort, and it was rent
asunder with a great noise, as it were of
thunder and an earthquake.

7 Moreover, they burnt the town of New-
ark, before they departed, which happened
on the tenth day of the twelfth month.

8 Howbeit, they gave the inhabitants time
to flee before they put the burning torch to
their dwellings ; nevertheless, it was an evil
thing, and pleased not the people of Co-
lumbia.

9 The men of Columbia were not cruel,
and they put none of the inhabitants of the
town to the sword.

10 After this, it canae to pass on the nine-
teenth day of the same month, early in the
morning before the dawning of the day,
about fifteen hundred of the savages and sol-
diers of the king crossed the river and went
against Niagara,

11 And they fell upon them unawares,
while they were yet asleep in their tents ;
and overcame them, and took the fort, and
put the garrison to the sword ; even the wo-

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men and children suffered under the savage
tomahawk.

12 Now the people of Columbia, who
were massacred that day, were about two
hundred two score and ten.

13 But the captain of the hold, whose
name was Leonard, was charged with the
evil ; for he had left the fort, and neglected
that duty which should ever be the pride of
a soldier.

14 Nevertheless, when they had commit-
ted all this horrid slaughter, the barbarians
were not fully glutted with murder ;

1 5 So they went against the little villages
of Lewistown, Manchester, Youngstonm, and
Tuscarora, and burnt them with fire, and
slew the poor and helpless that dwelt round
about the place.

16 After which, at the close of the year,
they went against the beautiful village of
Buffalo, and burnt it also ; and made it a
ruin and a desolation.

CHAP. XXXVIII.

Cruise of the V. S. frigate Essex , _D. Porter
commander — her defence and capture? at
Valparaiso.

JN OW while the great lakes and rivers were
bound in fetters of ice, and the armies of Co-
lumbia slumbered in the winter camps of the
north ;

2 And whilst the conquering sword of
Jackson spread ruin and desolation among
the misguided savages of the south ;

3 Lo ! new scenes of warfare appeared up-
on the waters of the great deep.

4 In the first year of the war David, whose
sur-name was Porter, sailed from the shores
of Columbia towards the south, that he might
capture the vessels of the men of Britain.

5 And the ship which he commanded was
one of the strong vessels of Columbia, called
the Essex.

6 Now David was a valiant man, and he
had contrived a plan to annoy the commerce

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of Britain in the waters of the great Pacific
Ocean,

7 So, in process of time, he passed around
the furthermost part of the land of Columbia,
which is called Cape Horn, and lieth far to
the south ; near the country of Palagonia,
which is inhabited by the barbarians, and
sailed towards the haven of Valparaiso.

8 From whence, leaving Chili to the south,
he moved along the coast of Peru, till he
came to Lima, where it never rains :

9 A country where gold and silver are
found in abundance, and where therfj is one
continual summer, and the trees blossom
throughout the year.

.10 Again, he prepared his vessels, and
sailed from Lima towards the north, until he
fell upon the islands of Gallapagos ; called
the enchanted islands.

11 Now these islands lie upon the west
side of the great continent of Columbia, un-
der a meridian sun, beneath the girdle of the
world.

12 Hereabouts he captured a multitude of
the merchant ships of Britain, laden with
rich merchandize, and silver and gold.

1 3 And he fixed a score of the destroying

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engines into one of the ships he had taken ;
and made her a fighting vessel, and called
her name Essex Junior, and a man, whose
name was Downs, he made captain thereof,

14 And he fell upon the fishermen of Bri-
tain, and captured those who went out to
catch the mighty whales, which afford oil to
give us light in the night time, and the bones
thereof shade our daughters from the scorch-
ing sun of the noon-day.

15 Moreover, David went to an island
where there dwelt wild savages, and estab-
lished himself so that he could go out and re-
turn whensoever he chose.

16 And when he departed from the island,
which he called after the chief governor of
the land of Columbia in those days,* he left
some of his men, with the weapons of war,
to defend the place.

17 Now David was a grievous thorn in the
side of Britain, and he almost destroyed her
commerce in the South Seas :

18 Inasmuch as he put the wise men of the
king to their wits end ; for they were unable
to out-sail him and take him captive.

19 So they sent their strong ships in search

* Madison Island,

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of him, by two's, over the whole face of the
waters of the Southern Ocean ; and the ex-
pense thereof would hare made more than
two feasts for the Prince Regent, who govern-
ed England in the name of his father.

20 However, it came to pass, that David
returned again in his ship to the haven of
Valparaiso; and the vessel, called the Essex
Junior, accompanied him.

21 Now Downs, who commanded her, had
been to the place before, and conducted the
prizes of David there, and brought him the
tidings that he was likely to be ensnared up-
on the waters.

22 So whilst David was there, on the
twenty-eighth day of the third month, in the
eighteen hundred and fourteenth year of the
Christian era,

23 He looked around, and behold ! he saw
two of the strong ships of Britain approach-
ing, for the purpose of hemming him in ; the
one called the Phoebe, and the other the
Cherub.

24 But his heart sank not within him, for
be knew no cowardice ; but, with the wis-
dom of a brave man, he strove to escape, as
the vessels were too powerful for him>

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25 But the winds were adverse, and blew
bard, and prevented the tacklings of his ship
from taking effect :

26 Nevertheless, David said unto the cap-
tains of the king, Come singly, and not like
cowards, upon me ; then shall ye receive the
thunders of the freemen of Columbia abun-
dantly ;

27 And her liberty shall not suffer, al-
though in the contest ye may destroy my ves-
sel upon the face of the waters.

28 But Hillyar, the captain of the king's
ship called the Phoebe* was afraid lest he
should be overcome.

29 Now, when David found he was unable
to make good his escape, he drew nigh the
land, that be might be protected by the great
law of nations ; for it was a place friendly to
both parties.

30 But in this he was deceived ; for the
authorities of Spain trembled at the nod of
the servants of Britain, in whom there was no
faith.

31 So both vessels came upon him, like
ravenous wolves, in the very haven of Valpa-
jaiso ; thus transgressing the law of nations,

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and committing an outrage which hath few
examples under the sum

32 And they set their engines to work up-
on the Essex with all their might.

33 Nevertheless, David fought against
them with desperation, for there was no hope
left for him to escape ; neither did he expect
mercy.

34 And he held out for more than the
space of two hours, when he became over-
powered ; having his ship a sinking wreck,
covered with blood, and on fire ; with about
an hundred and fifty of his men slain and
maimed.

35 So after David had fought hard, he be-
came captive to the ships of the king ; who
had also some of their men slain, and some
wounded.

36 Moreover, Hillyar gave him praise
and called him a man of courage ; for he
fought against two strong ships of Britain.

37 And David made a covenant with Hill-
yar, in which the Essex Junior was given
unto him and his men, that they might re-
turn in her again to their own country.

38 And it came to pass, in the seventh
month of the same year of the battle, David

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arrived in the city of New-York; having
been absent about two year3.

39 Now when the people of Columbia be-
held the valiant Porter, they were rejoiced
with exceeding great joy ; inasmuch as they
untackled the horses from before his chariot,
and drew him through the city.

40 And they made a sumptuous feast for
him, and invited a multitude of guests ; and
spent the day in gladness and mirth.

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CHAP. XXXIX.

Capture of the U. & sloop of war Frolic, by
the British frigate Orpheus — capture of
the British sloop of war JU Epervier, by the
Peacock, Capt. Warrington — capture of the
Reindeer, by the Wasp, Capt. Blakely — the
Avon captured and sunk — U. S. vessels Sy-
ren and Rattlesnake captured — Admiral
Cochrane declares the whole American coast
in a state of blockade.

JN OW it happened, on the twenty-first day
of the fourth month of the eighteen hundred
and fourteenth year, that one of the strong
ships of the king, called the Orpheus;

2 Being upon the waters of the great
deep, fell in with a small vessel of the Uni-
ted States, called the Frolic, and made cap-
ture thereof.

3 However, in the same month, not many
days afterwards, a fighting vessel of Colum-

206

bia, called the Peacock, commanded by the
brave Warrington, met one of the vessels of
the king.

4 Now they were about equal in force;
and the name of the vessel of Britain wag
called UEpervier, and the captain's name
was Wales.

5 And they sat the engines of destruction
to work, and fought with great fury for the
space of forty minutes;

6 When the mariners of Columbia over-
came the servants of the king, and the vessel
of Britain struck her red-cross to the ship of
Warrington.

7 And there were slain and wounded of
the servants of the king about twenty and
three ; but there were none slain of the peo-
ple of Columbia.

8 Moreover, Warrington gat about an
hundred and twenty thousand pieces of sil-
ver, that were in the vessel.

9 And he received great praise through-
out the land for this gallant exploit.

10 And the great Sanhedrim thanked him
and gave him a medal of gold.

11 Likewise, the people of Savannah, a
chief town in the state of Georgia, being a

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thousand miles to the south of New-YoVks
honored him greatly.

12 For he had brought both vessels into
their port ; and there were much rejoicings ;
and a rich feast was prepared for him by the
people.

13 Moreover, it came to pass, on the
twenty-eighth day of the sixth month, that
one of the righting ships of Columbia, called
the JVasp, met a vessel of the king upon the
ocean, called the Reindeer ; after one of the
swift running animals of Columbia.

14 Now the Wasp was commanded by a
man of courage ; whose name was Blakeley.

15 And a dreadful battle began ; and the
mischievous weapons of destruction shower-
ed around with tremendous noise.

16 Nevertheless, Blakeley ran down upon
the Reindeer, and in about twenty minutes
made her a captive unto the ship of Columbia.

17 But her captain was slain, and she was
as it were a wreck upon the waters ; so
Blakeley destroyed her.

18 The loss of the king, in killed and
wounded that day, was about seventy and
five ; and five of the children of Columbia

were slain, and about a score maimed,

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19 And the friends of the great Sanhe*
drim were pleased with the valiant acts of
Blakeley.

20 Moreover, on the twenty-seventh day
of the eighth month, the Wasp captured an-
other ship of the king, called the Avon, anc
sunk her to the bottom of the briny deep.

21 And the slain and the wounded of the
Avon, was two score and two.

22 Howbeit, about the same time, the Sy-
ren and the Rattlesnake* fell into the hands
of the king.

23 About this time the whole land of Co-
Jumbia was ordered to be hemmed in by Coch-
rane, a servant of the king, and a chief cap-
tain of the navy of Britain.

24 But all their blockades were of no
avail ; for the men of Columbia escaped and
outwitted them.

* U. S. schooner and brig, about 14 guns each.

J20»

CHAP. XL,

ireaking up of the cantonment at French
Mills— affair at La Cole Mill— Major Ap-
pling captures two hundred British seamen
— Gen. Brown captures Fort Erie — battle
of Chippawa plains.

J\ OW it came to pass, in the second month
of the same year in which David gat home
to the United States,

2 That the armies of the north began to
be in motion, and departed from the place
called French Mills, where they were en-
camped.

3 And a part thereof moved towards
Plattsburgh, on lake Champlain ; and was
commanded by a brave man, whose name
was Macomb, and Wilkinson, the chief cap-
tain, followed after them.

4 But the other part of the host, command-
ed by Jacob, whose sur-name was Bronm\

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went to Sachetfs Harbor; and from thence
against the strong hold of Niagara.

5 And it was so, that when Wilkinson
heard that Jacob had gone against Niagara ;
he marshalled out his force, and went against
a place in the province of the king, called
La-Cole-Mill, to take it.

6 Nevertheless, he failed, and lost many
men, after which the command of the army
was given to a chief captain, whose name
was Izard,

7 In the meanwhile many of the evils of
warfare were committed on and about the
waters of Ontario and the great lake Erie.

8 And a gallant captain, whose name was
Appling* took about two hundred of the ma-
riners of the royal navy of Britain, at a place
called Sandy Creek, by the waters of lake
Ontario : being in the same month that the
strong hold of Osivego was taken by the men
of Britain.

9 Now on the third day of the seventh
month, it came to pass, that Jacob, the chief
captain of the host of Columbia, on the bor-
ders of the river Niagara,

* Major Appling,

211

10 Having prepared his men beforehand,
crossed the river and captured fort Erie, and
an hundred thirty and seven of the soldiers
of the king, and some of the destroying en-
gines ;

11 And the next day, being the anniversa-
ry of the independence of Columbia, after
having left some of the men of war to defend
the place,

12 He moved with his host towards the
plains of Chippawa, where they rested for
the night.

13 On the next day Jacob assembled his
captains of fifties, and his captains of hun-
dreds, and spake unto them, saying,

14 Lo! the army of the king are mighty
men of valor, and their numbers are great,
even those who have fought under the ban-
ners of Wellington.* the chief warrior of Bri-
tain ; and Riall, the chief captain of the host,
is a man of great experience :

15 Nevertheless, be not disheartened ; but
let us beware that we be not ensnared.

16 So he prepared his army to go against

;: LordWelliogton,

212

the host of Britain, in battle array ; and the
soldiers of Columbia shouted for the battle.

17 Now the army of Britain rested upon
the plains of Chippawa, and were ready to
meet the army of Columbia; they shouted
aloud, and inflamed their blood with the strong
waters of Jamaica.

18 And they put fire to the black dust of
the destroying engines ; and a great noise is-
sued from the mouths thereof.

1 9 Moreover, they vomited fire and smoke
and brimstone wonderfully, and with the
movements of the armies the dust of the earth
arose and overshadowed the field of slaughter.

20 And the heavy balls of iron whistled
about them in abundance*

21 However, the skill of Jacob, and his
brave captains, became manifest, and they
drove the slaves of Britain before them,

22 And compelled them to flee to their
strong entrenchments at Fort George and
jFort Niagara.

23 And the field of battle was covered
with the slain and the maimed ; even eight
hundred men.

24 And the slain and wounded of the ser-
vants of the king were about five hundred.

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25 So Jacob and his army gat great praise,
and all the warriors of Columbia that fought
that day ;

26 Amongst whom were the volunteers of
the states of New-York and Pennsylvania^
who were led on by the gallant Porter.*

27 And Ripley was there, and the brave
Scott, who went out and fought in the heat of
the battle.

* Gens. Porter, Ripley, and Scott.-,

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CHAP. XLL

Battle of Bridgewater.

jS OW about this time there was peace
among the strong powers of Europe ; and the
strength of Britain was free to be employed
against the people of Columbia.

2 So she increased her navy on the shores
of Columbia, and strengthened her armies in
Canada ; and sent skilful men to conduct them
and to fight her battles :

3 And, in her spite, she emptied out the vi-
als of her vengeance upon the United States.

4 Notwithstanding, it came to pass, on the
twenty-fifth day of the same month,

5 That another bloody battle was fought
hard by, at a place called Bridgewater, from
whence ye might behold the stupendous wa-
ter-falls of Niagara.

6 There the army of Britain came out
against Jacob, with a host of five thousand
chosen men.

7 Now the numbers of the host of Colura-

215

bia were less than the host of the king, who
were commanded by two chief captains, the
one named Drummond, and the other JRiattj

8 Nevertheless, Jacob went out against
them and gave them battle : and the army of
Columbia shouted aloud ; and the battle wax-
ed hot beyond measure.

9 And it lasted for the space of seven
hours \ even until the midnight.

10 The huge engines of destruction roar-
ed as the loud thunder, and the blaze thereof
was like unto flashes of lightning.

1 1 But it came to pass, that the army of
Columbia drove the invincibles of Wellington
from the field.

12 The valiant Miller, with his band, rush-
ed upon the soldiers of the king, with the
sharp points of his weapons of war, that faint-
ly glittered in the light of the moon, and
overcame them.*

13 Moreover, Drummond, the chief cap-
tain of the king, was wounded, and nigh be-
ing made captive; and Riall, the chief cap-

* Miller's brilliant charge on theenemv,

216

tain, was taken and fell into the hands of the
brave Jessup.*

14 And Jacob, the chief captain of the
host of Columbia, was sorely wounded ; and
the brave Scott was wounded to a certain de-
gree.

15 However, this was a dreadful battle,
fought army against army, and blood and
slaughter covered the green fields.

16 The loss of the king, was about a thou-
sand and two hundred fighting men, who
came to the land of Columbia to lose the
honor they won in Europe.

17 The loss of the men of Columbia was
also very great ; being an hundred three
score and ten slain, and more than five hun-
dred maimed.

18 Now as Jacob, the chief captain of the
host of Columbia was wounded, the charge
was given to the valiant Kipley, and the
army returned to the strong hold of Fort
Erie.

19 And Jacob and his brave men gained
great praise throughout the land of Columbia.

Major Jessup, of the 25th Reg.

2J7

CHAP. XLII.

Assault on Fort Erie, by the British, under
Gen. Drummond — Gen. Brown resumes his
command — sallies out of Fort Erie against
the British camp — Ml Arthur's expedition
into Canada.

AND it came to pass, on the fourth day of
the next month, being the same day that the
gallant Morgan, with two hundred and two
score men, drove a thousand soldiers of the
king from before Black Rock,

2 A chief captain of Columbia, whose
name was Gaines,* arrived from Sackett's
Harbor at Fort George ; and took the com-
mand thereof.

3 And it was so, that on the following day
the army of the king approached towards
the fort, and encamped themselves.

4 Moreover, they threw up breast-works

* Gen, Gaines.

218

and prepared their battering-rams, with in-
tent to destroy the place, and make captives
of the men of Columbia.

5 For as the invincible soldiers of Bri-
tain had lost a great deal of honor > they long-
ed to gain some favor in the sight of the king,
their master ; so they sat their bombs and
their engines at the work of destruction.

6 And on the fifteenth day of the month,
after they had prepared themselves, they
rushed forth with all their might against the
strong hold of Columbia.

7 And as their deeds were evil, they began
in the dead of the night, when the howlings
of the wild-wolf are heard from afar, and the
steady roar of distant waterfalls, catches the
ear of the drowsy centinel.

8 Lo ! it was a night dark and gloomy ;
and the very clouds of heaven wept for the
folly of man.*

9 Quickly did the weapons of murder dis-
turb and trouble the general silence.

10 Their thunders roared around the bat-
tlements; and the sudden blaze, from the en-
gines, was as a thousand flashes of lightning.

* It was a rainy night.

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11 But the men of Columbia were not a-
sleep ; for they met them at the onset : thrice
the men of Britain came , and thrice were
they driven back.

12 About this time, a man of Columbia,
who was sorely wounded, begged of an offi-
cer of the king that his life might be spared ;

13 But the captain, whose name was
Dtummond,* to whom he spake, refused him
quarters ; and, taking an oath, he swore and
cursed the men of Columbia, saying* Even as
f slay thee, so shall it be with ye all*

14 Thus violating the commandment of
God, which sayeth, Thou shalt do no

MURDER.

15 But the hand of the Lord was stretch-
ed out against him ; for while he was yet
speaking, in the wickedness of his heart, he
was smitten dead to the earth.

16 Now, although the men of Britain did
some injury to the fort, they were quickly
compelled to depart.

17 And the slain and wounded of the king
that night, were about seven hundred, besides
two hundred captives.

♦ Col. Drunamond.

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18 The loss of the United States was about,
an hundred men.

19 Now it came to pass, on the seven-
teenth day of the next month, when Jacob
was recovered of his wounds, and had re-
sumed his command, he sallied out of Fort
Erie with his men, and went against the camp
of the servants of the king.

20 And by his bravery and skill, and that
of the valiant captains under him, he took
and destroyed their strong holds, and slew
many of them, so that their loss was about a
thousand fighting men.

21 And the slain and wounded of Jacob's
army were two hundred ninety and nine.

22 Now the valiant deeds of Jacob, and his
brave men, are they not written in all the
books of the chronicles of the land of Colum-
bia of that day ?

23 After this, on the twenty-first day of
the same month, Drummond and the host of
Britain, being tired of the noise of the des-
troying engines of the men of Columbia,
went away from the place and rested their
army at Q,ueenstown.

24 About this time Izard, the chief cap-
tain, arrived at Fort Erie, from Pittsburgh,

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and, as he was the oldest captain, he took the
charge of the army of the north.

25 During these circumstances, it happen-
ed that the brave Mf Arthur, who had remain-
ed at the strong hold of Detroit, to defend it,

26 Moved his army towards Burlington
Heights, and went more than an hundred
miles into the province of Canada.

27 And the men of Columbia that went
with him were valiant men from tbe state of
Kentucky and Ohio ; in number about eight
hundred.

28 Victory perched upon their arms, and
they slew some of the servants of the king,
and made many prisoners, and returned again
with the loss of one man.

29 In the meanwhile, the army of Izard
crossed the river and returned from Erie to
the borders of Columbia, in tbe latter part
of the year, and went into their winter
camps at Buffalo.

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C3HAP. XLIII.

Attaek on Stonington, by the British ships of
war, which are defeated and driven off.

IN these days the strong powers of Britain
strove hard to quench the fire of Columbian
Liberty.

2 But it was lighted up by the hand of
heaven, and not to be extinguished by the
insignificant and self-created gods of the
earth.

3 Now it came to pass, on the ninth day of
the eighth month of the same year,

4 That the mighty ships of Britain came
and opened their thundering engines upon
the little town of Stonington, which lieth in
the state of Connecticut, in the east.

5 But the inhabitants of the place were
bold and valiant men, and they scorned to
make a covenant with the servants of the
king.

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6 Although Hardy,* the chief captain of
the king's ships, had threatened to destroy
the place ; saying, Remove from the town
your women and your children, who are in-
nocent and fight not.

7 Thus showing more righteousness than
any of the king's captains ; albeit, he gave
them only the space of one hour to depart-

8 So the men of Columbia let the destroy-
ing engines loose upon the vessels, and shot
the yankee-balls amongst them plentifully.,
and compelled them to depart :

9 Notwithstanding, they had but two of
the destroying engines in the place.

10 However, on the eleventh day of the
same month, they were again forced to put
them in motion.

11 For, in the mean time, Hardy had sent
a messenger to the inhabitants, saying,

12 If ye will not prove wicked, and will
refrain from sending your evil torpedoes
amongst our vessels, then will we spare your
town.

13 Now Hardy was mightily afraid of

* Com. Hardy, a captain under Lord Nelson, at the batUeof

Trafalgar,

T 2

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these torpedoes, (the history whereof is writ-
ten in the fiftieth book of these chronicles)
and he trembled at the sound of the name
thereof.

14 Nevertheless, the people of Stonington
refused his request.

15 So the ships of Britain came again and
they brought another strong ship of the king
to help them to take the place.

16 But once more the valiant sons of Con-
necticut made them fly for safety : and they
came not again.

17 And the gallant conduct of the people
of Stonington gained them much praise, even
from the great Sanhedrim of the people.

18 Thus would the children of Columbia
have done, in many other places, but for the
false words and wickedness of traitorous meir.

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CHAP. XLIV\

Affairs in the Chesapeake — British army
move up the Paluxent — land and march to-
wards the city of Washington — prepare
themselves for battle at Bladensburgh.

-WOW the mighty fleet of Britain, that
troubled the waters of the great Bay of Che-
sapeake, commanded by Cockburnthe wick-
ed, continued their depredations.

2 The number of their fighting ships were
increased, and the soldiers of the king had
come thither in multitudes from the island of
Britain.

3 For the war which she had waged against
the mighty ruler of France* was at an end ;
and all their men of war were idle ; so they
sent them against the men of Columbia, who
slew them with terrible slaughter.

4 Now the numbers of the servants and
soldiers of the king, in and about the Chesa-
peake, were little fewer than ten thousand.

* Buonaparte,

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5 And they moved up the great river,
which is called the Potorvmac, and the river
Patuxent, which lieth to the east thereof.

6 So, as they passed along, they did much
damage ; and destroyed abundance of the
sweet-scented plant of Virginia, burning it
with fire.

7 Now this weed is a native of the land of
Columbia, and groweth not on the island of
Britain :

8 Therefore, the nostrils of the slaves of
Britain were regaled with the scent thereof,
for the king had put a silver bar* against its
plentiful use, throughout his whole do-
minions.

9 However, it came to pass* about thq;
twentieth day of the same month, that the
whole army of Britain gat out of their ves-
sels and their boats, at a place called Bene-
dict, being towards the head of the river Pa-
tuxent.

10 And a man of great experience in mat-
ters of warfare, surnamed Poss, was chief
captain of the host of Britain.

1 1 So they marched on towards Washing"

* Tax on tobacco, manufactured in Englaad, is very heavy.

22f

ton, which lieth on the waters of the Potow-
mac, and is called the chief city of the land
of Columbia ; where the great Sanhedrim as-
semble themselves together.

12 And they journied on until they came
to a place called Bladensburgh, which lieth to
the east of the city, not far off.

13 And Cockburn staid not behind, for his
heart thirsted after blood and murder.

14 Now this was on the twenty-fourth day
of the eighth month, in the one thousand
eight hundred and fourteenth year of the
Christian era.

15 And the army of Columbia that went
out to meet the host of Britain, was com-
manded by a brave man, whose name was
Winder.

16 But it was in the heat of summer, and
the husbandmen of Columbia, that went out
to defend the place, were weary, for they
had travelled many miles from the house of
their fathers.

17 Moreover, their numbers were few at
the onset ; for those that were journeying on
their way came not in time.

18 Nevertheless, they who came prepared
themselves for the fight, in the hope that they

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aaight not be overcome by the servants of
the king.

19 And it was so, that when Ross, the
chief captain of the host of Britain, drew nigh
the place, and saw that the men of Columbia
were bent on giving him hindrance,

20 He addressed the officers and the men
of his army, and encouraged them, saying,

21 Lo ! we are stronger than the host of
Columbia ; therefore, let us go with all our
might against their chief city, and make cap?-
ture thereof,

22 And burn it with fire, and take their
chief governor, and bind him hand and foot*
and bring him before the king.

23 Moreover, let us surround the temple
of the great Sanhedrim of the nation, and en-
deavor lo catch them, even as the huntsman
catcheth foxes.

24 Then shall we strike terror throughout
the land of Columbia, and the arms of the
king, our master, shall be encircled with glory.

25 The spirit of the people will be bro-
ken ; they will bow down to the servants of
the king : and all the nations will behold tfce
valiant deeds of Britain*

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CHAR XLV.

Capture of Washington — sacking of Alexan-
dria— death of Sir Peter Parker.

JM OW, when Ross, the chief captain, had
done speaking, they sent forth their fire-
brands, and sat their destroying engines to
work, and cast balls of destruction and death.

2 Nevertheless, the men of Columbia were
not dismayed, but poured out their thunders
upon them in abundance.

3 And Joshua, sur-named Barney, who
commanded the vessels of Columbia nigh the
place, with his brave men, went out upon the
land, and fought against them with despera-
tion.

4 For he had ordered his little fleet to be
burnt with fire, that the men of Britain might
not profit thereby, and it blew up in the air
with a loud noise.

5 Now Joshua was in the heat of the bat-
tle i and his destroying engines slew the men

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of Britain on all sides: however, he was
wounded and made captive.

6 But the servants of the king treated
Joshua well, and honored him for his bravery.

7 Now James, the chief governor, and the
counsellors, and the scribes of the great San-
hedrim, went out to see the battle, and to con-
trive for the safety of the city.

8 And Monroe* the chief scribe of the
great Sanhedrim, was there; and Armstrong^
and many other friends of the land of Colum-
bia. I

9 Nevertheless, the wisdom of all their
plans failed them ; and they were sorely
grieved to behold the husbandmen and the
army of Winder, the chief captain, flee be-
fore the host of Britain.

10 But they were misled in their calcula-
tions ; and they were now unable to prevent
the evil.

1 1 Neither did the men of war they count-
ed upon arrive in time to catch the army of
the king.

12 Therefore, the host of Columbia fled,

* Hon. James Monroe, Sec'ry of State,
t Gen. Armstrong.

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and went beyond the city, and passing
through Georgetown, rested at a place called
Montgomery Court-houst.

13 And the slain and maimed of the king,
were about four hundred : those of the men
of Columbia about two score.

14 Now it was about the going down of
the sun, when the host of the king polluted
the Citadel of Freedom, and with their un-
hallowed footsteps violated the Temple of
Liberty.

15 And Cockbure and Ross led the sav-
age band of Britain into the midst of the city.

16 And the men of Columbia gnashed
their teeth, and bit their lips with vexation ;
for the thing might have been prevented.*

* Whatever may be individual sentiment, it has been, and
still is the general opinion of the best informed, that there was
sufficient time to have had the place entrenched and fortified, if
necessary, with an hundred pieces of cannon ; and at least to
have kept the enemy at bay uutii a sufficient force were assem-
bled to have cut off his retreat. But to expect raw militia to
meet and repulse, in an open plain, solid columns of regular
troops, superior in numbers as well as discipline, must be prepos
terous. Who is to blame in the business we presume not to say -
but hope the evil may be remedied against a future day. Had
the same energy and industry been exercised there, that were
displayed by the patriotic citizens of New- York, in erectipf.

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17 Nevertheless, it proved a blessing, for
it united the people of Columbia as one man,
against the tyrants of the earth.

18 Now the place that had been pitched
upon to build the chief city, was in a fine
country, and a beautiful spot, in the District
of Columbia.

19 But the inhabitants round about the
City of Washington were few ; for they had,
as it were, just begun to build it.

20 There was much ground laid out for
the city, even six thousand four hundred
square furlongs ; but the buildings -therein
were not many ; neither was it fortified.

21 So when the servants of the king came
to the place, they looked around, in surprise,
and cried out with astonishment, saying,

22 Lo ! the city hath fled with the people,
for there are but an handful of houses in the
place.

23 However, the next day they began the
work of destruction, like unto the barbari-
ans of ancient times ; for their wickedness

fortifications for the defence of their capital, we might have
been spared the mortification that followed the capture of th6
seat of government.

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followed after them as the shadow followeth
after the substance.

24 And they destroyed the beautiful edi-
fices with fire, even the palace of the great
Sanhedrim.

25 Now Cockburn hated that his wicked
deeds should be handed down to future gen-
erations, so he went and destroyed, with his
own hands, the chief printing-office* of the
city, and scattered the types abroad.

26 Thus did he, even Cockburn, like an
ignorant savage, stamp his own name with
infamy, and make it to become a reproach
amongst all mankind,

27 Science and learning blushed at the
champions of England, who had been repre-
sented as the bulwark of religion ; but who
were, in reality, the supporters of idolatry ;
the staff of Juggernaut, the false god of India.

23 Now the art of printing was not known
among the ancients ; for it was invented in
these latter days , even in the fourteen hun-
dred and fortieth year of the Christian era.

29 It was the helpmate of Freedom, and
when the light which it spread burst forth

• Office of the National Intelligences

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upon the world, it began to open the eyes of
man, and to destroy the poisonous weeds that
choaked the growth of Liberty.

30 Moreover, to complete the vandalism
of Cockburn and Ross, they fell upon the
printed books of the great Sanhedrim.

31 Even those that had been gathered to-
gether for instruction ; the toil of many years,
containing the learning and wisdom of ages.

32 And they consumed them with fire ;
ihus striving to turn man back to the ages of
ignorance and darkness.

33 Now, Thomas, whose sur-name was
Jefferson, who had been a scribe in the days
of Washington, and a chief governor of the
land of Columbia, in times past ; a man whom
the people esteemed for his virtue,

34 When he heard of their wickedness ;
how, savage-like, they had burnt the books
which had been written by the wise men of
the earth, and preserved from the beginning
to that day ;

35 In the goodness of his heart, he wrote
unto the great Sanhedrim, when they were
assembled together, saying :

36 Since, like the barbarians of old, whose
ignorance might plead for them, the servants

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of the kingdom of Great Britain have laid
waste your chief city, and made it a deso-
lation,

37 And have trampled upon science, mu-
tilated the monuments of art and industry,
destroyed the archives of your nation, and
burnt your books with fire ;

38 For your benefit, and for the benefit
of my country, I will give unto you my
whole Library, which I have selected with
care, from my youth upwards, and whatever
in your judgment shall be the value thereof,
that will I accept.*

39 I am well stricken in years, and must
shortly sleep with my fathers ; but the last
wish of my heart shall be the welfare of

MY COUNTRY.

40 Now Thomas was a philosopher, and a
man of great learning, and he had abundance
of books of all nations, and in all languages,
even ten thousand volumes.

41 So the great Sanhedrim accepted the
offer of Thomas, and they retain the books
to this day.

* Mr. Jefferson left it to Congress to make him what compen .
sation they thought proper for his Library.
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42 Now it came to pass, in the evening of
the same day, on which the vandals of Britain
set fire to the city, that the army of the king
fled from the place ; for the air of Liberty
was poison to the followers of tyrants.

43 Moreover, they left some of their slain
and wounded behind, for they were afraid of
being caught in a snare by the husbandmen
of Columbia.

44 So they went down to the river and gat
into their vessels from whence they came.

45 In the meantime, the inhabitants of
Alexandria, a town which lieth to the south
€>f the chief city, on the river Potomac, in the
state of Virginia,

46 Being smitten with fear, sent to Cock-
burn and Ross, entreating mercy, that they
might be spared, if, peradventure, they made
a covenant in good faith with them, and sur-
rendered themselves.

47 And the chief captains of Britain
agreed to the capitulation of the town, and to
vouchsafe it protection.

48 But the people suffered for their foolish
confidence ; and no one pitied them ; for it
was of their own seeking.

49 So it happened, after they had trusted

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to the faith of the servants of the king ; Gor-
don, a captain of the ships in the river Po-
tomac, came up against them before the
town ;

50 And took their merchant ships; and
compelled the people to open their store-
houses, and put into the vessels their flour,
even sixteen thousand barrels, and their wine,
and their cotton, and a thousand hogsheads
of the sweet-scented plant.

51 So the robbers of the king took them
away, sacked the town, and laughed at the
people thereof, for trusting to the faith of
British honor.

52 However, as they passed along down
the river, with their ill-gotten treasure, lo I
the ships of Britain were assailed, and nigh
being destroyed :

53 For Rogers, and Perry, and Porter t
three valiant captains of the navy of Colum-
bia, gave them hindrance and annoyed them
greatly :

54 Perry and Porter raised fortifications
upon the borders of the river, and put there-
in the destroying engines, which, when the
vessels came nigh by, they let loose upon

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them abundantly, and wounded them in their
tackling, and slew numbers of their men.

55 Moreover, the balls which the engines
vomited forth, were red and hot from the
mouth of the fiery furnace.

56 Meanwhile, Rogers sent his fire-ships
among them to destroy them as they fled ;
nevertheless they escaped.

51 Now about this time, being the thirtieth
day of the same month, Peter, whose sur-
name was Parker, who commanded a strong
ship of the king, was committing many de-
predations along the shores of the Chesa-
peake ;

58 So Peter essayed to go in the night-
time against some husbandmen of Columbia,
commanded by the gallant Held,* about the
borders of the state of Maryland;

59 And when he had landed his men of
war, he went out after the husbandmen, and
the plunder ; but they were upon the watch,
and fell upon him, and killed and maimed
about two score, and was nigh making cap-
tives of them all ; and Peto»r was amongst the
slain.

* Col. Rei(L

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60 Now when the news of the taking of
the chief city of Columbia, and the sacking
of Alexandria was received in Britain, at
first the people rejoiced, saying, Now, for-
sooth, have we conquered these cunning
Yankees !

61 But afterwards they became, for once,
ashamed, and hid their faces ; for they had
heard the judgment of the surrounding na-
tions, by whom their vandalism was con-
demned.

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CHAP. XLVI.

British, under Gov. Prevost, go against
Plattsburgh — Com. Macdonough captures
the British squadron on Lake Champlain.

Nevertheless, if difficulties and dis-
asters befel the people of Columbia in the
south, lo ! there was a wreath of laurels weav-
ing for them in the north.

2 Behold ! a mighty army of the king bad
assembled together at the village of Cham-
plain, between Plattsburg and Montreal ; nigh
unto the place where Forsyth the warrior, the
second Sumter,* was slain :

3 For the Prince Regent had commanded
his servants to go forth into the heart of the
land of Columbia, and separate the states of
the east from the rest of the country.

4 So it came to pass, about the fifth day of
the ninth month, that the host of Britain ap-

* Sumter, a brave officer in the American Revolution*

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peared before the village of Plattsburgh ;
which lieth about three hundred miles from
New-York towards the north.

5 Now Prevost, the governor of Canada,
was the commander of the army ; and the
number of his men of war was about fifteen
thousand.

6 And they began to prepare their batter-
ing rams, their bombs and their rockets, and
alt kinds of instruments of destruction ; and
they entrenched themselves round about.

7 Now the strong hold of Plattsburgh was
hard by ; and the brave Macomb was the chief
captain of the hold ; and the number of his
men was about fifteen hundred ; being in the
proportion of one Yankee to ten Invincibles.

3 Howsoever, the valiant husbandmen of
the states of Vermont and New-York, called
militia, commanded by Mooers, a man of
great courage, assembled together, to assist
in the defence of the place, on the borders of
the river Saranac, which emptieth its waters
into lake Champlain.

9 In the meantime, Downie, the chief cap-
tain of the fleet of Britain upon the lake, had
prepared himself to assist Prevost on a cer-
tain day appointed.

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10 When he was to come out against the
fleet of Columbia, which was commanded by
the gallant Macdonough.

1 1 Accordingly, it came to pass, on the ap-
pointed day, being the eleventh of the ninth
month, in the one thousand eight hundred and
fourteenth year of the Christian era,

12 And three hundred and sixty-five days
after Oliver had captured the king's fleet on
the waters of Erie,

13 That the strong vessels of Britain ap-
peared, with their sails spread, moving upon
the bosom of lake Champlain, coming against
the fleet of Columbia.

14 Now it was in the morning, about the
ninth hour, when Macdonough beheld the
fleet of Britain sailing boldly towards him.

15 And it was so, that the vessels of Co-
lumbia were safely moored in the bay of
Plattsburgh, where they waited the approach
of the enemy ; who were the strongest in num-
bers and in their engines of death.

16 However, when they were about a fur-
long off, they cast their anchors, and set them-
selves in battle array ; squadron against
squadron.

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17 Now the sound of the battle-drum was
heard along the lake, and the brave mariners
shouted aloud for the fight.

1 8 Then began their destroying engines to
utter their voices, and it was like unto the
voice of mighty thunders.

)9 And the same hour, the armies on the
shore began the dreadful battle with their
roaring engines.

20 So that on the land and on the waters
the fire and smoke were abundant, and the
noise thereof was tremendous beyond mea-
sure.

21 And the battle waxed hot, and the ves-
sels of Downie fought bravely against the
vessels of Macdonovigh ;

22 Nevertheless, the Lord of hosts favor-
ed the men of Columbia, and they overcame
the servants of the king.

23 For in about the space of three hours,
the valiant Macdonough and his brave men,
made capture of the whole fleet of Britain,
save a few gun-boats, that made good their
escape.

24 Now the killed and wounded of the

king's fleet, were an hundred ninety and four ;
w

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and Downie, the chief captain, was among
the slain.

25 Moreover, the number of the captives
of the men of Britain was about four hun-
dred.

26 Now Macdonough was a good man,
neither was he full of boasting and vain-glo-
ry : he arrogated to himself no praise on ac-
count of his success, but ascribed the victory
to the pleasure of the Almighty.

27 And as it is written, in the word of the
Lord, Do unto all men as ye would they
should do unto you, so he took care of the
prisoners, and employed skilful physicians
to bind up the wounds of the maimed.

28 Now were the children of Columbia
exceedingly rejoiced ; yea, their hearts were
made glad ; and they praised Macdonough
for his noble deeds.

29 Moreover, the great Sanhedrim honor-
ed him ; and a piece of land, which over-
looked the lake, was given unto him, for an
inheritance ;

30 That, in his old age, and when he was
well stricken in years, he might behold with
Joy the strength of his youth ; and smile up-

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on the spot where, fleet to fleet, he triumphed
over the enemies of freedom.

31 And where his children's children
might point, and say, It was there the guar-
dian angel of Columbia permitted our father
to humble the pride of Britain.

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CHAP. XLVir.

Battle of Plattsburgh— defeat of Sir George
Prevost.

1M0W while Macdonough was capturing
the royal fleet of Britain, upon the lake, the
gallant Macomb scattered destruction amidst
the army of Prevost.

2 And the battle raged with great violence,
and the men of Britain strove hard to pass
over the river called Saranac;

3 But the men of war of Columbia, who
were upon the opposite side of the water, op-
posed them, and slew them with great
slaughter.

4 And the brave Grosvcnor, and Hamilton,
and Riley, and the gallant Cronk, drove them
back from crossing the bridges.

5 Likewise, many were slain in the river,
so that the waters of the Saranac were dyed
with the blood of the servants of the king.

6 But Macomb kept the engines at work3

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and Brooks, and Richards, and Smith, who
were in the forts, displayed much valor, and
caused the engines to vomit fire and smoke,
and balls of heavy metal.

7 Howsoever, when Prevost saw that the
king's fleet was captured, he began to be dis-
heartened, and his whole army was amazed.

8 Notwithstanding this, they continued to
cast their balls, and their rockets, and their
bomb-shells, and then* sharpnells, with all
their might.

9 Now these sharpnells were unknown
even to the children of Columbia, for they
were lately invented by the wise men of Bri-
tain.

10 However, the people of Columbia
trusted in the strength of their arms, more
than in the strength of these shells, so they
used them not.

11 Nevertheless, the army of the king
fought hard with their battering-rams against
the strong hold of Columbia, until the setting
of the sun, when their noises were silenced
by the brave band of Columbia.

12 So the same night, Prevost, and the in-

vincibles of the king, fled towards the strong

hold of Montreal; leaving their sick and
w 2

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wounded behind to the mercy of the men of
Columbia ; destroying their provisions, which
in their haste they could not carry away.

13 And the men of Columbia followed
them a little way, and slew some and made
many captives.

14 Thus were the men of war of Britain
conquered in the north, army against army,
fleet against fleet, and squadron against
squadron.

15 And the killed and wounded of the ar-
my of the king that day, were about a thou-
sand men; and about three hundred, who
were tired of their bondage, left the service
of the king,* and joined the banners of the
great Sanhedrim.

16 Now Macomb received much praise
for his bravery ; and his name shall be re-
membered by ages yet unborn.

17 Moreover, he spake well of all the offi-
cers and men who fought with him.

18 And Mooers, who commanded the
brave husbandmen of New- York and Ver-
mont, and Strong, the valiant chief captain

* Deserters.

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of the men called volunteers, had great
honor for their noble deeds.

19 Likewise, Appling, and Wool, and
Leonard, and Sproul, distinguished them-
selves among the brave.

20 But when the news of the capture of the
fleet, and the defeat of their mighty army,
reached the lords of Britain, they put their
fingers in their ears, that they might not
hear it :

21 Neither would they believe it ; but
when they found it was so of a truth, they
were enraged out of measure.

22 And their wise men and their counsel-
lors said, Lo ! we have only been trifling
with these Yankees ; now let us send forth a
mighty fleet and an army to overwhelm them.

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CHAP. XLVIII.

Attack on Baltimore, by the British army, un-
der Gen. Ross, and the fleet under Admi-
rals Cochrane and Cockburn.

JN OW when Ross and Cockburn returned
from their burning and pillaging, and all the
barbarities they committed at Washington,
the chief city, and the neighborhood thereof;

2 Emboldened by the success of their un-
righteous deeds, they gathered together their
army and their navy, and essayed to go
against the city of Baltimore, which lieth in
the state of Maryland ;

3 That they might commit the like wick-
edness, in which they had taken so much
pleasure at Hampton, Havre-de-Grace, and
Washington.

4 But they had a mightier place than
Washington to go against ; for Baltimore is
a great city, containing therein about fifty
thousand souls, and the people had entrench-
ed it round about, and made it a strong place.

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5 So it came to pass, the next day after
Macdonough had captured the fleet of Bri-
tain, on lake Champlain, being the twelfth
day of the ninth month,

6 That their vessels and transports came
to a place called North Pointy which lieth at
the entrance of the river Petapsco, about an
hundred furlongs from the city, and began
to put their men of war upon the shore.

7 And the number of their chosen fighting
men, wrho were landed, were about eight
thousand.

8 And when they were all moved out of
the boats, Ross, the chief captain, conducted
them on towards the city.

9 As they moved along their instruments
of war glittered in the beams of the sun ; and
the waving of their squadrons was like the
troubled waters of the ocean.

10 However, when they came to a place
called Bear Creek, lo ! the army of Columbia
met them in battle array.

1 1 For, when the gallant young men of
Baltimore heard the rumor, that the slaves of
Britain were coming upon them ;

3 2 With the spirit of freemen, they grasp-
ed their weapons of war in their hands, and

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went out to meet them without fear ; resolv-
ed to conquer or to die.*

13 For well they knew, that life would be
a burthen to them, when their habitations
were consumed with fire ; their parents
slaughtered ; and the innocence of their
wives and their sisters violated.

14 Now the name of the chief captain of
the army of Columbia was Samuel, whose sur-
name was Smith :f a valiant man, who had
fought in the days of Washington, and gain-
ed much honor.

15 Moreover, Samuel was a man well-
stricken in years, and he had many brave
captains under him ; even Strieker, and Starts-
hury, and Winder were with him.

16 Now it was somewhat after the mid-
day when the engines of destruction began
their roaring noises :

17 And the fire and smoke were vomited
forth out of their mouths, so that the light of
the sun was hidden by the means of the black
clouds that filled the air.

* Although it may be said the British were not conquered ;
yet they were defeated,
f Gen. Smith.

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18 And their rockets, and all their inslrti<
ments of death, which the sons of men have
employed their understandings to invent,
were used abundantly.

19 Now the battle waxed hot, and the gal-
lant Strieker, and his brave men, fought
hard ; and it was a dreadful fight,

20 Inasmuch as the slain and wounded of
the king that day, were about four hundred ;
and the loss of the men of Columbia was two
hundred.

21 Moreover, Ross, the chief captain of
the host of Britain, was amongst the slain ; a
boy, who had accompanied his father to bat-
tle, had taken dreadful aim at Ross, with his
rifle, and killed him ; and the people of Co-
lumbia grieved only because it was not
Cockburn the wicked, who had fallen ; for a
man, whose name was O' Boyle, had offered
live hundred pieces of silver for each of his
ears.

22 Nevertheless, the men of Columbia
were not powerful enough to overcome the
servants of the king ; so they drew back into
their entrenchments, and strong holds ; that
were upon the high places round about the
city.

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23 And Rogers, and Findley, and Harris,
and Stiles were among the captains of the
strong holds ; and were all faithful men.

24 But it came to pass, the next day, when
the men of Britain saw that the children of
Columbia were well prepared for battle, that
they were afraid to go against the strong
holds.

25 So in the middle of the night, which
was dark and rainy, they departed from the
place, and returned to their vessels, that they
might escape the evil that was preparing for
them.

26 Moreover, they took the dead body of
Ross, their chief captain, with them, and cast
it into a vessel, filled with the strong waters
of Jamaica;

27 That the instrument of their wicked-
ness might be preserved, and conveyed to the
king, their master, and be buried in his own
country ; for which honor the people envied
them not.

28 Now it came to pass, in the meantime,
that Cochrane, and Cockburn the wicked, the
chief captains of the mariners of the king,
sailed up the river Petapsco, towards the
strong hold of Fort M'Henry, to assail it

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29 Now the strong hold of M'Henry lieth
about fifteen furlongs from the city ; and the
name of the chief captain thereof was Armis-
teady a man of courage.

30 And when the strong vessels of the
king drew nigh urrto the fort, they cast their
rockets and their bomb-shells into it plenti-
fully, and strove hard to drive the men of
Columbia away.

31 But the gallant Armistead let the des-
troying engines loose upon them, without
mercy ; and they cast out their thunders,
winged with death, among the servants of the
king.

32 The loud groans of their wounded
floated upon the waters, with an awful horror
that shocked the ear of humanity.

33 And it was so, that when Cockburn
found he could not prevail against the
strong hold, he also departed from the
river, neither came they against the place
any more.

34 Now when the men of Columbia heard
that Ross, the chief captain of the king, was
slain, and the host of Britain was compelled
to flee from before the city, they were ex-
ceedingly rejoiced.

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35 And the brave defenders of Baltimore
had great praise and honor given them
throughout the land.

36 And the names of those who fell in the
contest, are they not written on the monu-
ment which the gratitude of the people of
Baltimore erected to the memory of its
defenders ?

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CHAP. XLIX.

Destruction of the privateer Gen. Armstrongs
Samuel C. Re id, captain — Scorpion and Ti-
gress captured — U. S. frigate Adams burnt
— Castine — Fort Boyer attacked — destruc-
tion of the pirates at Barrataria, by Com,
Patterson — Gen. Jackson captures Pensaco-
la, and returns to New-Orleans.

JN OW the loud and frightful noise of war
sounded upon the bosom of the great deep j
and the shores of Columbia knew no peace.

2 The dreadful clangor of arms rung up-
on the land, and echoed from the mountains ;
and the groans of suffering victims floated in
the air of heaven.

3 But the Lord favored the people of Co-
lumbia, and their armies and their navy gain-
ed strength, and prosperity was showered up-
on them ; the voice of war became familiar to
those who were strangers to it in times past.

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4 Now on the twenty-sixth day of the ninth
month, being in the thirty and ninth year of
Columbian Independence,

5 It came to pass, that a certain private
armed vessel of the people of Columbia, call-
ed the General Armstrong, commanded by
Samuel, whose sur-name was Heid,

6 Had cast her anchors in the haven of
Fayal, an island in the sea, which lieth to-
wards the rising sun, about two thousand
miles from the land of Columbia ;

7 A place where, two score and ten years
ago, there was a mighty earthquake ; and
where poisonous reptiles never dwell.

8 And it was about the dusk of the even-
ing when Samuel saw a number of the strong
vessels of Britain hemming him in: so he
drew nigh to the shore for safety, for the
place was friendly to both powers.

9 Nevertheless, the boats from the vessels
of the -king went against Samuel to take his
vessel ; but with his weapons of war he drove
them off and slew numbers of them, so that
they were glad to return to their strong
ships.

10 However, they quickly returned with
a greater number of boats, and about four

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hundred men ; and Samuel saw them, and
prepared to meet them.

11 The silver beams of the moon danced
upon the gently rolling waves of the mighty
deep, and the sound of the oar again broke
the sweet silence of night.

12 But, when they came nigh the vessel of
Samuel, the men of Columbia poured out
destruction upon them with a plentiful hand;

13 Inasmuch as they were again compel-
led to depart to their strong vessels, with
dreadful loss.

14 However, about the dawning of the day,
one of the strong vessels, called the Carna-
tion, came against the vessel of Columbia,
and let her destroying engines loose with
great fury.

15 Now Lloyd, who commanded the Plan
tagenet, was the chief captain of the squadron
of the king, in the place ; and he violated the
law of nations.

16 So when Samuel saw that the whole
fleet of Britain were bent on destroying his
vessel, in defiance of the plighted honor of
nations, he ordered her to be sunk.

17 After which he and his brave mariners

deserted her, and went upon the shore ; and
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the servants of the king came and burnt her
with fire in the neutral port of Fayal.

18 Nevertheless, they received the reward
of their unrighteousness, for much damage
was done to their vessels, and their slain and
wounded were two hundred two score and
ten.

19 Of the people of Columbia two only
were slain and seven maimed ! !

20 And the valiant deeds of Samuel gain-
ed him a name amongst the brave men of Co-
lumbia.

21 Now, in the same month, the Scorpion
and the Tigress, two righting vessels of Co-
lumbia, on lake Huron, were captured by the
men of Britain.

22 Likewise, about this time, there were
numerous other evils that befel the sons of
Columbia ;

23 Inasmuch as a brave captain, whose
sur-name was Morris, was obliged to con-
sume his ship with fire, lest she should fall in-
to the hands of the enemy ; and she was call-
ed the Adams.*

U.S. frigate Adams.

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24 Now this was at a place called Castine9
which was forcibly occupied by the strong
ships of Britain, and lieth to the east, in the
District of Maine : moreover, it became a
watering place for the servants of the king.

25 But when James, the chief governor,
and the great Sanhedrim, knew thereof, they
sent word to the governor, and offered him
soldiers to drive them from the borders of
Columbia ;

26 But, lo! the governor, even Caleb the
shittamite, refused his aid, for he was afraid
of the wrath of the king of Britain.*

27 (Now Caleb, in the hebrew tongue, sig-
nifieth a dog ; but, verily, this dog was
faithless.)

28 Moreover, it came to pass, about the
same time, that the strong hold oiFort Boyer,
being at a place called Mobile-point, was at-
tacked by the strong ships of Britain.

29 Now Mobile had lately been the head
quarters and the resting-place of the army of
Jackson the brave ;

30 But the enemies of Columbia had be-

* See the letter of Sec. Monroe, and Strong's answer.

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some tumultuous at a place called, by the
Spaniards, Pensacola, whither he had depart-
ed to quell them ;

31 So that the fort was defended by only a
handful of men, commanded by the gallant
Lawrence.

32 And the names of the vessels of the
king, that assailed the fort, were the Hermes,
the Charon, and the Sophie, besides other
fighting vessels ; which opened their fires up-
on the strong hold.

33 Nevertheless, Lawrence was not dis-
mayed, although Woodbine,* the white sav-
age, came in his rear, with one of the des-
troying engines and a howitzer, an instru-
ment of Satan, and about two hundred sav-
ages.

34 So when Lawrence let his engines of
death loose upon them, and had showered the
whizzing balls amongst them for about the
space of three hours, they fled.

35 And the slaughter on board the ships
was dreadful ; and about three hundred of the
men of Britain were slain, and the Hermes

* The celebrated Cspt. Woodbine, of the British navy.

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was blown out of the water into the air with
an awful noise.

36 The loss of the people of Columbia
that day, was four slain and five maimed.

37 About this time a band of sea-robbers
and pirates, who had established themselves
upon the island of Barrator la, were commit-
ting great wickedness and depredations; and
were ready to assist the men of Britain.

38 But a valiant man, called Daniel, sur-
named Patterson, went against them with his
small fighting vessels,* and scattered them
abroad, and took their vessels, and destroyed
their petty establishment of sea-robbery.

39 Now it came to pass, when Jackson
heard that Pensacola, the capital of West-
Florida, had become a resting-place for the
enemies of Columbia ; and that the men of
Britain occupied the place, and had built
them a strong hold therein ;

40 From whence they sent forth the
weapons of war and the black dust among
the savages, to destroy the people of Co-

* Gun-boats.

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lumbia ; and that the servants of the king of
Spain were afraid to prevent the wickedness
thereof;

41 Behold! he, even Jackson, went ou
against the place with a band of five thousanc
righting men, the brave sons of Tennessee
and other parts of Columbia.

42 And it was early in the morning of the
seventh day of the eleventh month, when
the host of Columbia appeared before the
walls of Pensacola.

43 And immediately Jackson sat the en-
gines of destruction to work ; and the smoke
thereof obscured the weapons of war.

44 Now when the governor of the place
heard the noise of the engines of death
and the clashing of arms, he was smitten
with fear ;

45 Insomuch that Jackson, the chief cap-
tain, who with his army had encompassed the
place, quickly compelled him to surrender
the town, and beg for mercy ; which was
granted unto him and his people, even the
Spaniards.

46 Now when the men of Britain saw this,
they put the match to the black dust in

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their strong hold, and it rent the air with tre-
mendous noise.

47 After which they fled from the land in-
to their strong ships, that were in the haven
of Pensacola.

48 And Jackson, having accomplished his
wishes, by intimidating the tools of British
villany and murder, returned with his army
in triumph to the city of New-Orleans, on
the second day of the twelfth month.

2££2*£

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CHAP. L.

Steam-boats — Fulton — torpedoes — attempt to
blow up the Plantagenet — kidnapping

Joshua Penny.

JM OW it happened that, in the land of Co-
lumbia, there arose up wise and learned
men, whose cunning had contrived and in-
vented many useful things.

2 Among these there appeared one whose
ingenuity was exceedingly great, inasmuch
as it astonished all the inhabitants of the
earth :

3 Now the name of this man was Robert,
sur-named Fulton ; (but the cold hand of
death fell upon him, and he slept with his fa-
thers, on the twenty and third day of the se-
cond month of the eighteen hundred and fif-
teenth year of the Christian era.)

4 However, the things which he brought
into practice in his life time will be record-
ed, and his name spoken of by generations
Vet unborn.

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5 Although, like other men of genius, in
these days, he was spoken of but slightly at
first ; for the people said, Lo ! the man is be-
side himself^ and they laughed at him ; ne-
vertheless, he exceeded their expectations.

6 For it came to pass, that (assisted by Li-
vingston, a man of wealth, and a lover of arts
and learning) he was enabled to construct
certain curious vessels, called in the vernacu*-
iar tongue, steam-boats.

7 Now these steam-boats were cunningly
contrived, and had abundance of curious
workmanship therein, such as surpassed the
comprehension of all the wise men of the
east, from the beginning to this day ;

8 Howbeit, they were fashioned some-
what like unto the first vessel that floated up-
on the waters, which was the ark of Noab,
the ninth descendant from Adam ;

9 And, that they might heat the water
which produced the steam, there was a fiery
furnace placed in the midst of the vesselss
and the smoke issued from the tops thereof.

10 Moreover, they had, as it were, wheels
within wheels ; and they moved fast upon the
waters, even against the wind and the tide.

11 Ajad they first began to move upon the

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great river Hudson, passing to and fro, from
New- York to Albany, in the north, convey-
ing the people hither and thither in safety.

12 But when the scoffers, the enemies of
Fulton, and the gainsayers, saw that the
boats moved pleasantly upon the river, they
began to be ashamed of their own ignorance
and stupidity, and were fain to get into the
boats themselves ; after which, instead of
laughing, they gaped at the inventor with as-
tonishment.

13 And it came to pass, that the great
Sanhedrim were pleased with the thing, inas-
much as they directed a fighting vessel of
Columbia to be built after this manner.

14 So a vessel was built, to carry the des-
troying engines, even a steam-frigate, and
they called her name Fulton the First :

15 And the length thereof was about an
hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof thir-
ty cubits :

16 Moreover, as they had no gophar-
vvood, they built the vessel partly of the lo-
cust-tree, and partly of the majestic oak that
flourishes in the extensive forests of Co-
lumbia.

17 But it came to pass, when the wise men

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and the people of Britain heard of this steam-
frigate, they were seized with astonishment
and fright ; inasmuch as it became a monster
in their imaginations.

18 And they spake concerning it, saying,
Lo ! tiie length of this wonder of the world,,
which hath been invented by these cunning
Yankees, is about two hundred cubits, and
the breadth thereof an hundred thirty and
five cubits :

19 The number of her destroying engines
are very great ; and the weight of a ball which
she vomiteth forth, is about a thousand five
hundred two score and ten shekels :

20 Moreover, said they, she is prepared to
cast forth scalding water in showers upon the
servants of the king, which will deform their
countenances and spoil their beauty :

21 Likewise, they have prepared her with
two-edged swords, which, by means of the
steam of the vessel, issue like lightning out
of her sides.

22 And now, also, the cunning and witch-
craft of these Yankees, these sons of Belial,
these children of Beelzebub, have invented
another instrument of destruction, more sub-
tle than all the rest :

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23 Yea, these are mighty evil things, and
they are called torpedoes, which may be said
to signify sleeping devils ; which come, as a
thief in the night, to destroy the servants of
the king ; and were contrived by that arch
iiend whose name was Fulton.

24 Now these wonderful torpedoes were
made partly of brass and partly of iron,
and were cunningly contrived with curious
works, like unto a clock ; and as it were a
large ball.

25 And, after they were prepared, and a
great quantity of the black dust put therein,
they were let down into the water, nigh un-
to the strong ships, with intent to destroy
them i

26 And it was so, that when they struck
against the bottom of the ship, the black dust
in the torpedo would catch fire, and burst
forth with tremendous roar, casting the ves-
sel out of the waters and bursting her in
twain.

27 Now these torpedoes were brought in-
to practice during the war, although the war
ceased before they did that destruction to
the enemies of Columbia, for which they
were intended.

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28 However, a certain man of courage
and enterprize, whose name was Mix, pre-
pared one of the torpedoes, and put it into
the waters of the great deep, at a place called
Lyn-Haven Bay, at the mouth of the great
bay of Chesapeake, nigh unto the town of
Norfolk, in the state of Virginia;

29 And it moved towards a strong ship of
Britain, called the Plantagenet, after one of
the former princes of England ; but an acci-
dent happened a little before it reached the
vessel, and it burst asunder in the waters
with a tremendous noise ;

30 And spouted the water up into the air,
as doth the mighty whale, and the sound
thereof was, as it were, the voice of thunder,

31 And the servants of the king were
frightened horribly by the means thereof;
after which they trembled at the name of
torpedo ! — and were obliged to guard their
vessels in the night, and put a double watch
upon them ;

32 Moreover, they condemned this mode
of warfare, saying : Verily, this is a foul fa-
shion of fighting ; inasmuch as by your cun-
ing ye Yankees take the advantage of us ;
and the thing is new unto us.

Y 2

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33 But they had willfully forgotten, that,
in the life time of Fulton, they had offered
him forty thousand pieces of gold, if he
would bring these torpedoes into practice in
their own country, that they might use them
against the Gauls,* (with whom they warred
continually for more than twenty years) :
Howbeit they proved faithless to Fulton, and
so he did it not for them.

34 Moreover it came to pass that a cer-
tain man, a pilot, even Joshua, sur-named
Penny, became a victim of their spite, be-
cause he attempted to go against them with
the torpedoes to drive them out of the wa-
ters of Columbia.

35 Now Joshua lived at a place called
East Hampton, being at the east end of Long
Island, near Gardner's Island, opposite New
London.

36 And the men of Britain came to his
house in the night, and stole him away, even
out of his bed, and carried him on board a
vessel of the king, called the Ramilies, from
whence he was conveyed to Halifax in the
province of Nova Scotia.

* This was about the time of the Boalogoe flotilla.

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37 Now while Joshua remained in the
dungeons of the king he was treated with the
inhospitaJity of barbarians ; moreover, they
strove to lead him astray : but he proved
faithful to his God and to his country ; for he
had known the wickedness of Britain in times
past.*

38 However, they kept him in bondage
many months, after which they suffered him
to go to his own country.

39 For the chief governor of the land of
Columbia, and the Great Sanhedrim in their
wisdom had ordered two of the servants of
the king to be taken and held as hostages for
his safe return ; and, but for this thing, they
would have hanged him, even as a man hang-
cth a dog.

* Joshua Penny had been, previous to the war, impressed
in the British service, and kept in it a number of years.

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CHAP. LI.

Affairs in and about New- York, the first com-
mercial city in America — working on the
fortifications of Brooklyn and Haerlem —
capture of the British tender Eagle, by the
Yankee smack.

JN OW, as good sometimes cometh out of
evil, so the people of New- York, a great
city, which lieth at the mouth of the river
Hudson, nigh the sea coast, and containeth
more than an hundred thousand souls,

2 When they beheld the wickedness that
was committed by the servants of the king,
to the south and round about, began to bestir
themselves, and prepare for the dangers with
which they were likely to be encompassed :

3 So it came to pass that the husbandmen
from the vsurrounding country gathered to-
gether, and pitched their tents hard by the
city.

4 And the number that came to the de-
fence of the place was about thirty thousand

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valiant men ; moreover there were about five
thousand husbandmen from the state of Nerv-
Jersey,*

5 Now these men were called Jersey Blues,
and they were encamped partly at Paulus
Hook, and partly at a place called the Nar-
rows, which lieth to the south of the city a-
bout an hundred furlongs, where the des-
troying engines were placed in multitudes.

6 And when the term of the engagement
of these men of Jersey expired, they griev-
ed only that their time was spent for nought ;
for they were ready and well prepared to
meet the servants of the king.

7 Nevertheless, it was so that (he freemen
who came to the defence of the city, built
strong holds and forts, and raised up fortifi-
cations in abundance, inasmuch as the whole
place was as it were one camp.

8 Moreover, on the tenth day of the eighth
month, in the eighteen hundred and four-
teenth year, the inhabitants assembled toge-
ther in the midst of the city, even in a place
called the Park, where the Federal Hall, a su-
perb edifice, rears its majestic front ; within
the walls of which the wise men, the expoun-

* The exertions of Daniel D. Tompkins, governor of the state
of N.York, at this time, will long be remembered by the people.

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ders of the law, preside, and deliberate for
the benefit of the people.

9 Now it was about the twelfth hour of
the day when the people began to gather
themselves together ; and, from the porch of
the hall, the aged Willet, with the star-span-
gled banner of Columbia waving over his
silvery head, addressed the surrounding mul-
titude.

10 And the people shouted with a loud
voice, for the words of his mouth were plea-
sant to the sons of Liberty, and were in this
wise :

11 Lo ! three score and fourteen years
have brought with them their bodily infirmi-
ties ; but were my strength as unimpaired
as my love for my country, and that soul
which still animates me, ye would not have
found me in the rostrum, but in the midst of
the battle ! fighting against the enemies of
freedom.

12 Thus did he encourage the people to
prepare themselves for the protection of the
city.

13 And certain wise men were appointed,
by* the people ; to bring these things into
operation.

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14 So the people began to fortify them-
selves and entrench the high places round a-
bout the city.

15 And when they went out in its de-
fence, to build their strong holds and to raise
up their battlements ; lo! the steam-boats of
Fulton conveyed them thither, about a thou-
sand at a time, even towards the heights of
Brooklyn in the east, and the heights of
Haerltm in the north.

16 The young and the old, the rich and
the poor, went out together ; and took with
them their bread and their wine ; and cast up
the dirt for the defence of the place, freely,
and without cost to the state.*

17 And when they went into the boats to
cross over the river, there was loud shouting
in the boats and on the shore.

18 Moreover, as they passed along up the
Hudson, towards the haights of Haerlem,
the fair daughters of Columbia, with hearts
glowing with patriotism, waved their lily
hands in token of applause.

19 Likewise, bands of men came from the
neighbourhood round about ; even from New-

* The services rendered on this occasion, by that respect-
able class of citizens, the Firemen of J\'erv- York, were parties
cularly conspicuous.

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ttrlc, and Patterson, and Paulus Hook, which
lie in the stale of New- Jersey,

20 They had also captains appointed over
their bands ; and Abraham and David were
two among the captains.*

21 Now Abraham, with his band, came a
great way, even from the town of Patterson,
where the wonderful waterfalls pour head-
long over the rocky mountains, reflecting in
Ihe sun a thousand brilliant rainbows,

22 Thus for an hundred days did the peo-
ple of New- York prepare themselves for
danger, and cast up entrenchments for many
furlongs round about the city ; so that the
people of Britain were afraid to go against
It.f

* Majoi Goodwin and Major Hunt.

f So great was the enthusiasm of the people in contributing
their persona! services to the erection of fortifications on the
heights of Haerlem and Brooklyn, that scarcely could an indi-
vidual be found in the populous city of New- York, from hoary
age to tender youth, capable of using a mattock or a spade,
who did not volunteer his services in this work of patriotism.
Even the Ladies were conspicuous in aiding and cheering the
labours of their Fathers, their Husbands, their Brothers, and
their Children. Amongst others, the numerous societies of
Freemasons joined in a body, and headed by their Grand-
liastet, who was also Mayor of the city, proceeded to Brook

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23 Nevertheless the strong ships of war of
Britain moved upon the waters of the ocean
around the place in numbers, but they were
afraid to approach the city ; for when they
came nigh, the men of Columbia let the de-
stroying engines loose upon them, even those
that vomited forth whizzing balls, like shoot-
ing stars, red from the fiery furnace.

lyn, and assisted very spiritedly in its defence. On this occa-
sion an elderly gentleman, one of the order, who had two sons
(his only children) in the service of his country, one of them
highly distinguished during the war for his wounds and his bra-
very, sung the following stanzas, in his own character of Mason
and Father, whilst the Lodges were at refreshment :

Hail, Children of Light ! whom the Charities send

Where the bloodhounds of Britain are shortly expected ;
Who, your country, your wives, your ti. esi^es to defend,
Ou the summit of Urooklyn have ramparts erected :
Firm and true to the trade,
Continue your aid,
Till the top-stone with shouting triumphant is laid :
The free and accepted will never despair,
Led on by their worthy Grand Master and Mayor.

II.

For me, whose dismissal must shortly arrive,

To Heav'n I prefer this my fervent petition :
■• May I never America's freedom survive,
" Nor behoM her disgrae'd by a shameful submission :
" And, though righteously steel'd,
" If at last she must yield,
" May my sons do their duty, and die in the field : "
But the free and accepted will never despair,
Led on by their wcrthy Grand Master and Mayor.

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24 Notwithstanding, the haughty captains
of the ships of Britain would send in their
boats to rob the market-men and the fisher-
men: howbeit, they were sometimes en-
trapped.

25 For it came to pass, upon a certain day,
that the Poictiers, a mighty ship of the king,
lying at a place called Sandy-Hook, sent out
one of her tenders, even the Eagle, in search
of this kind of plunder :

26 Whereupon, a fishing boat of Colum-
bia, called the Yankee, under the direction
of a chief captain called Lewis,* prepare*
kerself with a number of men to entrap the
Eagle.

27 So they took a fatted calf, a bleating
Iamb, and a noisy goose, and placed them
upon the deck of the boat ; and when the ser
rants of the king came nigh the Yankee,
thinking they were about to be treated hand-
somely with the good things of the land of
Columbia, their hearts were rejoiced ;

28 They commanded the vessel called the
Yankee to follow after them, towards the

* Commodore Lewis, commander of the flotilla io the harbor
of New-York.

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ship of the king their master ; but at this moe
ment the men of Columbia arose up from
their hiding-places in the hold of the boat,
and shot into the vessel of Britain.

29 At the sound of which they were so
astonished, that they forgot to put the match
to the black dust of the huge howitzer, a de-
structive engine made of brass, which they
had prepared to destroy the men of Columbia.

30 So they were confused, and surrender-
ed the Eagle up to the Yankee.

31 And as they came up to the city, be-
fore the Battery, which is a beautiful place
to the south thereof, the thousands who were
assembled there, to celebrate the Columbian
Jubilee,* rent the air with loud shouts of joy,
whilst the roaring engines echoed to the
skies.

32 Thus was the lamb preserved, and the
proud and cunning men of Britain outwitted
writh a fatted calf and a Yankee goose.

* American Independence.

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CHAP. LII.

Affairs on the ocean — privateer Prince of
Neufchatel — Marquis of Tiveedale defeated
in Upper Canada — capture of the President
— loss of the Sylph — capture of the Cyane
and the Levant by the Constitution — capture
of the St. Lawrence — capture of the Penguin
by the Hornet, captain Biddle.

oTILL there was no peace, and the evils of
war continued on the face of the deep, and
the waters thereof were encrimsoned with
the blood of man.

2 And it came to pass, on the eleventh day
of the tenth month, in the eighteen hundred
and fourteenth year, that there was a sore
battle fought between five barges from the
Endymion, a strong ship of the king, and a
privateer, called the Prince of Neufchatel,
commanded by the valiant Ordonneaux, a
man of Gaul.

3 Moreover, the number of the men of Bri-
tain were threefold greater than the people
of Columbia ; and the fight happened nigh a

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place called Nantucket, in the east, journey-
ing towards Boston.

4 Now they sat their engines to work with
dreadful violence ; but in about the third
part of an hour the barges of the king's ship
were overcome ; and more than three score
and ten of the men of Britain were slain and
maimed : the loss in the privateer was six
slain, and about a score wounded.

5 Now this battle happened in the same
month in which more than a thousand men of
the warriors of Britain, commanded by the
Marquis of Tweedale, were defeated at Black
Creek, in Upper Canada, and driven to their
strong holds by the men of Columbia, under
the gallant Bissel.*

6 Ten days after which the steam frigate,
Fulton the First, was launched forth into the
waters at New- York.

7 And it came to pass, on the fifteenth day
of the first month of the next year, that one
of the tall ships of Columbia fell into the
hands of the servants of the king ;

8 And she was called the President, after

the title of the chief magistrate of the land

. - - — — .._ . , ■-.■■ »». —

* General Bissel.
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of Columbia; moreover, she was command-
ed by the gallant Decatur,

9 Who, but for an accident that befel his
ship the day before,* whilst he was moving
out of the harbor of New-York, would have
outsailed the fleet of Britain, and escaped, as
did the brave and persevering Hull, of the
Constitution, in the first year of the war.f

10 Nevertheless, it was so, that Decatur
was, as it were, surrounded by the ships of the
king, even five of them; so one of the ves-
sels, called the Endymiun, fell upon him, and
Decatur fought hard against her, and would
have taken her;

1 1 But the rest of the strong ships came
down upon him, and opened their thundering
engines, and compelled him to surrender his
ship to the fleet of Britain.

12 However it was a bloody fight; and
there fell of the men of Columbia that day
twenty and four that were slain outright, and
about two score and ten were maimed, after
having kept the destroying engines to work
about the space of three hours: howbeit,
Decatur lost no honor thereby.

* She was injured by grounding off the Hook,
f Commodore Hull, in this affair, gained much applause, fcr
his manoeuvres iu escaping from the British fleet*

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J 3 Two days after this, a strong vessel of
the king, called the Sylph, was cast away, in
a dreadful storm, at a place called Southamp-
ton, being on Long Island, where more than
an hundred men of Britain perished, in the
dead of the night; and the vessel parted
asunder and was lost.

14 Moreover, there were six of the men
of Britain who survived their brethren, and
were preserved on pieces of the vessel, until
the next day, when the neighbouring people
took them into their houses and nourished
them ;

15 And, when they were sufficiently reco-
vered, that misfortune might not bear too
heavy upon them, they were clad, and silver
given to them, and they were sent to their
own country, at the expense of the people of
Columbia.

16 (Blessed are the merciful, for they shall
obtain mercy, saith the scripture.)

17 Now it came to pass, in these days,
whilst the fleets of Britain captured the ves-
sels of Columbia, when they caught them sin-
gly upon the ocean, that the single ships of
Columbia began to capture the ships of Bri-
tain by pairs :

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18 Inasmuch as it happened on the twen-
tieth day of the second month of the same
year, that a certain strong vessel called the
Constitution, commanded by the brave Slew-
art, fell in with two of the strong ships of the
king, and compelled them both, in the space
of forty minutes, to strike the red cross of Bri-
tain to the stars of Columbia.

19 And the slain and wounded of the king's
ships were seventy and seven ; of the men
of Columbia three were slain and twelve
maimed ; and the names of the vessels of Bri-
tain were the Cyane and the Levant; but
the Levant was retaken in a neutral port,* by
two strong ships of the king.f

20 Now the valiant Stewart and his brave
men gat great praise for their deeds, even the
great Sanhedrim of the people honored them,
and gave them twenty thousand pieces of
silver.

21 In the same month the gallant Boyle,
commanding the privateer Chasseur, captur-
ed the St. Lawrence, a fighting vessel of the
king, in the fourth part of an hour.

22 And the killed and wounded of the St.

*. Porto Prava. f Acasta and Newcastle.

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Lawrence were thirty and eight; and the
Chasseur had five slain and eight maimed.

23 Moreover, it came to pass, on the twen-
ty-third day of the next month, that another
fighting vessel of the king, called the Pen-
guin, was taken by the Hornet, a strong ves-
sel of Columbia, commanded by a man of va-
lor and coinage, whose surname was Biddle.

24 However, the battle was a bloody one,
and the vessels kept their engines of destruc-
tion fiercely in motion, for about the space
of half an hour before the flag of Britain was
lowered to the stripes of Columbia.

25 And the slaughter was great ; for there
fell of the men of Britain two score and one;
but the slain of Columbia were only one, and
the maimed eleven.

26 And Biddle was honored greatly for
his courage :

27 However, this was the last sea-fight of
importance, being near the close of the war.

28 .Now about this time the navy of Co-
lumbia had increased more than fourfold, and
the fame thereof had extended to all nations.

29 For, though Columbia was young, even
as it were in the gristle of her youth ; yet
she now began to resume the appearance,
and display the vigor of manhood.

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CHAP. LIII.

British fled arrives near New-Orleans — the
American flotilla captured — attacks by the
British upon the army of Gen. Jackson.

PS OW, when the lords and the counsellors,
and the wise men of Britain, heard of all the
tribulations that befel them in the land of Co-
lumbia, they were troubled in their minds.

2 And as they had made what they called
a demonstration at Baltimore, they bethought
themselves of making another demonstration
in the south.

3 (Now the true signification, in the ver-
nacular tongue, of this mighty word demon-
stration, had always been familiar to the chil-
dren of Columbia; but the new interpreta-
tion, although it wounded the pride of Bri-
tain, tickled the sons of Columbia; for, as
the world must think to this day, so they
could only construe it, an ocular demonstra-
tion of British folly.)

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4 So it came to pass, that they gathered
together their army and their navy, even two
score and ten fighting vessels, carrying there-
in about twenty thousand men of war; and
the name of the chief captain of the navy-
was Cochrane; and the chief captains of the
army were Pakenham, Gibbs, and Keane.

5 And they essayed to go against the city
of New-Orleans, which lieth to the south, on
the borders of the great river Mississippi, in
the state of Louisiana, which was covenant-
ed, in good faith, to the United States in the
days when Jefferson presided as chief gover-
nor of the land of Columbia.

6 But it came to pass, that Jackson, when
he had returned from the capture of Pensa-
cola, where he corked up the bottles of ini-
quity that were ready to be emptied out
upon the men of Columbia,

7 Had arrived with his army at New-Or-
leans, he began to fortify the place, for he
had heard it noised abroad that the king was
bent upon taking the city.

8 About this time, Jackson communed
with Claiborne the governor, touching the
matter ; and as his men of war were but few,
the valiant husbandmen of Louisiana, Ten-
nessee, Kentucky, and the Mississippi Terri-

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lory, were informed of the evil, and accord-
ingly they flocked in multitudes to the ban-
ners of Jackson.

9 Now, as Jackson and Claiborne had
counted upon the arrival of the strong ships
of Britain, so it happened, in the latter part
of the eighteen hundred and fourteenth year,
that they made their appearance, even in the
twelfth month of the year.

10 And it was so, that when they had come
as nigh as they could unto the city with their
heavy ships, some of which carried an hun-
dred of the destroying engines, they cast an-
chor:

1 1 And lo, after having passed a certain
dangerous place called Pass Christian, they
prepared their boats, containing more than a
thousand men, and sent them in great num-
bers against the boats of Columbia that were
upon the waters of the lakes about the city.*

12 Now these small vessels of Columbia
were commanded by Thomas, a brave man,
whose surname was Jones, and he gave them
hindrance.

1 3 Nevertheless, in the space of about two
hours, the boats of Columbia were captured

* Lakes Borgae and Poucbartrain.

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by the vessels of Britain, one after another,
until they were all taken : however, the mar-
iners of Columbia fought well, and gained
great praise; and the loss of the king was
about three hundred.

14 Now the capture of the gun-boats of
the United States upon these waters encou-
raged the servants of the king, so they began
to land their mighty army upon the shores
of Columbia in great multitudes from their
boats:

1 5 And they pitched their tents, and cast
up fortification?, and prepared to assail the
strong hold of Jackson, the chief captain.

16 But, that the host of Britain might be
discomfited at the onset, Jackson went out
with his army against them ; but the men of
war of tbe king were twofold greater than
the men of Columbia, so Jackson was unable
to drive them away.

17 However, he fought bravely against
them, and slew numbers of them; albeit, the
slain and maimed of Columbia were about
two hundred , so Jackson drew back to his
entrenchments, and strengthened himself
there.

18 Now this happened on the twenty and

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third day of the twelfth month, in the eigh-
teen hundred and fourteenth year.

19 And it came to pass, on the twenty-se-
venth day of the same month, that a fighting
vessel of the United States, called the Caro-
line, commanded by Daniel, was set fire to,
and blown up, by the heated balls of the
king's fiery furnace.

20 On the next day, the whole host of Bri-
tain gathered themselves together, and with
their might went against the strong hold of
Jackson.

21 But Jackson let the destroying engines
loose upon the slaves of Britain, and compel-
led them to return to their encampments
with great loss, even an hundred and two
score.

22 Nevertheless, on the first day of the first
month, of the eighteen hundred and fifteenth
year, the men of war of Britain came again,
and strove to dislodge the army of Jackson;
but again they were deceived, and lost about
an hundred men.

23 At this time there arrived to the aid of
Jackson about two thousand five hundred va-
liant men, from the back-woods of Kentucky.

24 Disappointed in their expectations, and
failing in their attempts to discomfit the armv

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of Columbia, the captains and the host of
Britain arrayed themselves in their might to
go against the hold of Jackson with their
whole force.

25 And the morning of the eighth day of
the month was pitched upon, by the men of
Britain, for conquering the host of Columbia,
and settling themselves in the land of liberty.

26 So they prepared themselves with their
fascines and their scaling ladders, and their
bombs and their rockets, and all the wea-
pons of destruction that the ingenuity of Bri-
tain could invent.

27 After which Pakenham, the chief cap-
tain of the host of the king, spake to the
officers and the men of war that were under
him, saying,

28 Be ye prepared; for, lo! to-morrow,
at the dawning of the day, our mighty squad-
rons shall rush upon these Yankees, and de-
stroy them.

29 Here will we establish ourselves upon
the borders of Columbia; and ye shall be
officers, tythe-men, and tax-gatherers, under
the king, your master:

30 Moreover, a day and a night shall ye
plunder and riot ; and your watch-word shall
be, BEAUTY AND BOOTY !

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CHAP. LIV.

Grand Battle of Neiv-Orleans.

JN OW Pakenham, the chief captain of the
host of Britain, made an end of addressing
the officers and the soldiers of the king:

2 And it came to pass, in the one thou-
sand eight hundred and fifteenth year of the
Christian era, in the first month of the year,
and on the eighth day of the month,

3 Being on the Sabbath day, (which, as it
is written in the holy scriptures, Thou shalt

REMEMBER AND KEEP HOLY,)

4 That the mighty army of the king, which
had moyed out of the strong ships of Britain,
came, in their strength, to make conquest
of the territory of Columbia, which lieth to
the south ;

5 And to place therein a princely ruler t
and all manner of officers, the servants of the
king, even unto a tax-gatherer.

6 So, early in the morning, they appeared
before the camp of the men of Columbia, even

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the strong hold which Jackson, the chief cap-
tain, had fortified.

7 Their polished steels, of fine workman-
ship, glittered in the sun, and the movement
of their squadrons was as the waving of a
wheat-field, when the south wind passeth
gently over it.

8 The fierceness of their coming was as
the coming of a thousand untamed lions,
which move majestically over the sandy de-
serts of Arabia.

9 And the army rested upon the plains of
Mac Prardies, nigh unto the cypress swamp,
being distant from the city about forty and
eight furlongs.

10 And it was about the rising of the sun,,
when the battering-rams of the king began to
utter their noises; and the sound thereof was
terrible as the roaring of lions, or the voice
of many thunders.

1 1 Moreover, they cast forth bombs, and
Congreve rockets, weapons of destruction,
which were not known in the days of Jeho-
shaphat.

12 Nevertheless, the soul of Jackson fail-
ed him not, neither was he dismayed, for he
was entrenched round about ; and when he

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raised his hand, he held every man's heart
therein.

13 And Jackson spake, and said unto his
captains of fifties, and his captains of hun-
dreds, Fear not; we defend our lives and
our liberty, and in that thing the Lord will
not forsake us :

14 Therefore, let every man be upon his
watch; and let the destroying engines now
utter forth their thunders in abundance :

15 And ye cunning back-woodsmen, who
have known only to hunt the squirrel, the
wolf, and the deer, now pour forth your
strength upon the mighty lion, that we may
not be overcome.

16 And as the black dust cast upon a burn-
ing coal instantly mounteth into a flame, so
was the spirit of the husbandmen of the back-
woods of Columbia.

17 Now the brave men from Tennessee
and Kentucky set their shining rifles to work,
and the destroying engines began to vomit
their thunders upon the servants of the king.

18 Twice did the host of Britain, in solid
columns, come against the entrenchments of
Jackson, and twice he drove them back.

19 Moreover, Daniel the brave, who had

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raised up defences upon the banks of the ri-
yer, likewise let his engines loose upon them,
and shot into the camp of the king.

20 And the men of Britain strove to scale
the ramparts, and get into the stiong hold of
Jackson ; but the husbandmen drove them
back with great slaughter.

21 The fire and the smoke, and the deaf-
ning noise that sounded along the battle-
ments, were tremendous for more than the
space of two hours, when the dreadful roar-
ings ceased, for the warriors of the king fled
in confusion.

22 But when the sulphureous vapors arose,
behold the battle-ground was covered with
the slain and groaning officers and soldiers
of the kingdom of Great Britain!

23 Humanity shuddered at the awful scene,
whilst the green fields blushed.

24 Seven hundred of the servants of the
king were slain ; and their whole loss that day
was two thousand six hundred valiant men,
who had fought under Wellington, the cham-
pion of England.

25 And Pakenham,the chief captain of the
host of Britain, was amongst the slain; and
they served his body as they had served the

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body of Ross, their chief captain at the Balti-
more demonstration, preserving it, in like
manner, with the strong waters of Jamaica.

26 Moreover, one of their chief captains,
whose surname was Gibbs, was also slain,
and Keane was sorely wounded ; so that the
charge of the host of Britain that remained
from the slaughter, fell to a certain man whose
name was Lambert.

27 The loss of the army of Jackson was
only seven slain and seven maimed, a circum-
stance unparalleled in the annals of history :
howbeit, there were about two score slain and
wounded upon the other side of the river.

28 Now the whole loss of the king's army,
from the time they came against the country
of Louisiana until their departure, was about
five thousand.

29 After this they were discouraged, for
there was but a faint hope left for them ; so
they departed, and went into the strong ships
of the king, with their chief captain in high
spirits.

30 It is written in the book of Solomon,
that a fool laugheth at his own folly : now the
men of Britain were not inclined to laugh,
for they were sorely grieved; and but for

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the fear of the laughter of others, would have
wept outright.

31 And Jackson, the thief captain of the
host of Columbia, gave great praise to the
gallant Coffee and Carrol, and Daniel, whose
surname was Patterson, and all the valiant
men who fought on that glorious day.

32 Moreover, Jackson was honored with
great honor by the people throughout the
land of Columbia ; even the great Sanhedrim
were pleased with him, and exalted his name.

33 And the inhabitants of New-Orleans
were greatly rejoiced, and carried him
through the streets of the city above the rest ;
and the virgins of Columbia strewed his path
with roses :

34 For, io ! he had defended them from
the violence of savages, who came in search
of beauty and booty !

35 And when the wounded of the host of
Britain were brought into the city, the fair
daughters of Columbia took their fine linen
and bound up the wounds of the poor faint-
ing officers and soldiers of the king, and sat
bread and wine before them, to cheer their
drooping spirits.

36 Now again were the servants of the king
disappointed ; for, as they were sent upon an

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evil, as well as a foolish errand, they expect-
ed not mercy :

37 And when they saw the goodness that
was showered upon them, they said, Surely
ye are angels sent down from heaven to heal
the wounds inflicted by the folly of nations !

38 And should we again be led on to bat-
tle against your country, with propositions
to violate your happiness, our swords, as by
magic, shall be stayed, and drop harmless at
the feet of virtue and beauty !

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CHAP. LV.

Peace.

JN OW after the fleet of Britain had depart-
ed from New-Orleans in dismay, they com-
mitted many other depredations of a petty
nature.

2 In the mean time, Cockburn, the wicked,
was busily employed in what his heart de-
lighted in ; inasmuch as he carried the men
of Britain against the borders of South Caro-
lina and Georgia, and continued his system
of robbery.

3 And here, with the strong ships of Bri-
tain, he captured a town called St. Marys, in
the state of Georgia ; and, among other evils,
he stole away the sable sons of Ethiopia,

4 And conveyed them to the island of Ber-
muda, of which the king had made him chief
governor, and sold them, after promising them
liberty and freedom.

5 However, it came to pass, about this
time, that the news of a peace being made
between the nations arrived in the land of
Columbia :

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6 For it had happened that the great San-
hedrim, in their wisdom, had sent out Henry,
surnamed Clay, and Russell, two wise men,
called, in the vernacular tongue, commission-
ers, to join themselves with Bayard and Gal-
latin, who were sent before them, to try and
make peace :

7 For the voice of the people of Colum-
bia had spoken peace from the beginning ;
they wished war might cease, and that the
breach between the nations might be healed.

8 In the mean time the king sent some of
his wise men to meet the wise men of Colum-
bia, at a place called Ghent, a town a great
way off, in the country of Flanders :

9 For it came to pass, that the generous
mediation offered by the emperor of Russia
was refused by the council of Britain, who
had not yielded to the voice of accommoda-
tion.

10 So, when the ministers of the two na-
tions were met, they communed a long time
with one another, touching the matter ;

11 But the ministers of Britain raised up
difficulties, and demanded certain foolish
terms, which, in the Latin tongue, were writ-
ten sine qua non, and which being translated

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into the Yankee tongue, might be said to
mean neck or nothing.

12 Nevertheless, in process of time, the
wise men of Britain waved their demands,
and agreed to the sine qua non given to them
by the commissioners of Columbia.

13 So a treaty oi peace was made and
signed by the commissioners of both parties,
on the twenty and fourth day of the twelfth
month, of the one thousand eight hundred
and fourteenth year of the Christian era.

14 And the treaty was sent to England,
and confirmed by the Prince Regent, on the
twenty-eighth day of the same month ; for he
was tired of the war, and saw no hope of con-
quering the sons of liberty.

15 After which it was sent from Britain,
across the mighty deep, about three thousand
miles, to receive the sanction of the free peo-
ple of Columbia.

16 And the great Sanhedrim of the peo-
ple examined the treaty, and it was accepted
and confirmed by them on the seventeenth
day of the second month, in the eighteen
hundred and fifteenth year.

17 After which it was signed with the

hand-writing of James, the chief governor of

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the land of Columbia, and published to the
world.

18 Thus was a stop put to the shedding of
the blood of man, the noblest work of God ;
and the noise of the destroying engines sunk
down into silence, and every man returned
to his own home in peace*

19 Now when it was known for a certainty
that peace was made between the nations, the
people throughout the land were rejoiced
beyond measure,

20 (Except the wicked men, who had met
at Hartford, and in their folly sent three of
their scribes to the chief city, to endeavour
to disturb the councils of the great Sanhe-
drim ; which three men, arriving there about
this time, were sorely grieved that they and
their employers should be held up for a
laughing stock to the world ; so they sneak-
ed away like men ashamed of their own stu-
pidity.)

21 And it came to pass, when the news of
peace was spread abroad, that the temples of
the Lord were opened, and the people of
Columbia praised God for his goodness ; yea,
they thanked him that he had strengthened
their arms, and delivered them from the lion's
paw

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22 Thus did the children of Columbia praise
the Lord in the strength of their youth, and
in the days of their prosperity ; not waiting
till the cold and palsied hand of age had made
them feeble, and robbed their prayers of half
their virtue.

23 Henceforth may the nations of the earth
learn wisdom: then shall peace become tri-
umphant, and the children of Columbia be at
rest;

24 And, as it is written, their swords may
be beaten into ploughshares, and their spears
turned into pruning-hooks.

25 But, nevertheless, if this war, like all
other wars, brought evil upon the sons of
men, it demonstrated to the world, that the
people of Columbia were able to defend them-
selves, single-handed, against one of the
strongest powers of Europe.

26 And the mighty kings and potentates
of the earth shall learn, from this example of
Republican patriotism, that the PEOPLE are
the only " legitimate sovereigns" of the land
of Columbia.

27 Now the gladness of the hearts of the
people of Columbia, at the sound of peace,
was extravagant ; inasmuch as it caused them

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10 let loose their destroying engines, that
were now become harmless, and set in mo-
tion their loud pealing bells, that sounded
along the splendid arch of heaven.

28 Moreover, they made great fires and
illuminations in the night time, and light was
spread over the face of the land ;

29 And the beauty thereof was as if, from
the blue and spangled vault of heaven, it-had
showered diamonds ;

30 And all the nations of the earth beheld
ihe glory of Columbia.

END OP THE HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR

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est fighting ships of these barbarians, called
the Misodciy and he followed after her, and
in less than the space of half an hour after
letting his destroying engines loose upon her,
he took her captive, with five hundred men
that were in her.

21 And thirty of the barbarians were slain,
among whom was their chief captain, whose
name was Mais Hammida, besides many were
wounded, and about four hundred prisoners
wTere taken ; but Decatur had not a man
killed.

22 Moreover, on the second day after-
wards, the fleet of Columbia captured ano-
ther fighting vessel of the Algerines :

23 And the slain that were found onboard
being numbered, were twenty and three, and
the prisoners were four score : howbeit, there
were none of the people of Columbia even
maimed. Thus was the navy of Columbia
triumphant in the east, as it had been in the
west.

24 Now these things happened nigh unto
a place called Carlhagcna, on the borders of
Spain; and when the Spaniards beheld the
skill and prowess of the people of Columbia,
they were amazed.

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25 Immediately after this, Decatur depart-
ed, and went with his fleet to the port of Al-
giers, the chief city of the barbarians, lying
on the borders of Africa.

26 But when their ruler beheld the star-
spangled banners of Columbia, he trembled
as the aspen-leaf; he had heard that his strong
vessels were taken by the ships of Columbia,
and his admiral slain, and he was ready to
bow down.

27 And Decatur demanded the men of Co-
lumbia, without ransom, who were held in
bondage ; and ten thousand pieces of silver,
for the evils they had committed against the
people of Columbia : and the Dey had three
hours to answer him yea, or nay.

28 However, he quickly agreed to the
propositions of Decatur; and he paid the
money, and signed the treaty which Decatur
had prepared for him, and delivered up all
the men of Columbia whom he held as slaves.

29 And the treaty was confirmed at Wash-
ington, the chief city, and signed by James,
the chief governor, on the twenty and sixth
day of the twelfth month, in the same year :
and Decatur generously made a present of
the ship Misoda to the Dey.

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30 Now it came to pass, after Decatur had
settled the peace with the Dey of Algiers,
according to his wishes, that he sailed against
another town of the barbarians, called Tunis.

31 For the governor of this place, who is
called the Bey, had permitted great evils to
be committed against the people of Colum-
bia, by the ships of Britain, during the late
war; inasmuch as they let them come into
Iheir waters, and take away the vessels of Co-
lumbia that were prizes.

32 So, for these depredations, the gallant
Decatur demanded forty thousand pieces of
silver, which, after a short deliberation, the
Bey was fain to grant, lest, peradventure, his
city might, from the force of the destroying
engines, begin to tumble about his ears.

33 From the port of Tunis, Decatur de-
parted and went to a place called Tripoli,
which lieth to the south thereof, where the
brave Eaton* fought, and erected the ban-
ners of Columbia upon the walls of Derne.

34 Now the chief governor of the Tripo-
litans, whom they called the Bashaw, had
suffered like evils to be done by the British

* Gen. Eaton, a hero oi*the American war with Tripoli some
years ago.

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m his dominions which had been permitted
by the Bey of Tunis.

35 So likewise, for these evils Decatur de-
manded thirty thousand pieces of silver, but
at first the Bashaw refused to pay it.

36 However, when he saw the strong ships
of Columbia were about to destroy the town,
he paid the money, save a little, which he was
unable to get, and for which Decatur com-
pelled him to release ten of the captives of
other nations, whom he held in bondage.

37 Thus did Decatur, and his brave men,
in the same year, compel the powers of Bar-
bary to respect the banners of Columbia.

38 Now, having accomplished the object
of his expedition, he returned, encircled writh
glory, to the land of Columbia :

39 And all the people were rejoiced with
great joy, and they made feasts for him, and
extolled his name.

40 Moreover, the great Sanhedrim of the
people honored him for his gallant exploits5
and gave unto him and his brave officers and
mariners, an hundred thousand pieces of
silver.

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CONCLUSION.

Commodore Bainbridge Lord JExmouth's

Expedition against Algiers*

I.N the mean time, it had come to pass, that
lest the fleet of Decatur should not be suffi-
cient, the great Sanhedrim sent out after him
another strong fleet, commanded by the val-
iant Bainbridge.

2 But, lo' when his fleet arrived there,
the peace had been made, and an end put to
the war by the fleet of Decatur: so, after
sailing round about the coast, Bainbridge re-
turned home again with the fleet of Co-
lumbia.

3 Now it came to pass, after Decatur had
returned in triumph to the land of Columbia,
that the lords and the counsellors of Britain
became jealous of the fame of Columbia,
which she had gained in the east, in releasing
her people from slavery, as well as those of
other nations.

4 Moreover, the barbarians committed de-
predations against the people of Britain, nei-
ther did they regard their royal cross, as they
<lid the stars of Columbia.

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5 So the king fitted out a mighty fleet to
go against them ; and the name of the chief
captain thereof was PellerVyto whom the vain
people of Britain had given a new name, and
had called him lord Exmouth.

6 Accordingly, as their movements were
slow, in the fourth month of the one thousand
eight hundred and sixteenth year of the Chris-
tian era, the mighty fleet of Britain weighed
anchor, and shortly arrived before the city of
Algiers, as the fleet of Columbia had done
many months before them.

7 And it was so, that the chief captain of
Britain, in the name of the king his master,
demanded of the Dey the men of Britain,
whom he had held as slaves, and also those of
other nations.

8 But the Dey refused, saying, Ye shall
pay unto me five hundred pieces of silver for
every slave ithen will I release them, and they
shall be free.

9 And Exmouth, the lord of Britain, yield-
ed to the propositions of the barbarians, and
accordingly gave unto them the money, even
more than twenty horses could draw ;

10 For the number of Christian slaves
w7hich Exmouth bought of the barbarians,
was about five hundred.

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1 1 Therefore, the fleet of Britain succeed-
ed not, as did the fleet of Decatur; and the
doings of Exmouth might be likened unto a
certain mischievous monkey, that, in endea-
vouring to imitate the shaving of his master's
beard, cut his own throat.*

1 2 Thus, in this thing, did the lords of Bri-
tain strive to snatch the laurel from the brow
of Columbia :

13 But her valiant sons had entwined the
wreath of glory; and the scribes of this day
shall record it, in ever-living characters, on
the pyramid of fame.

FINIS.

Note. — For humanity's sake, it is to be hoped, that in future,
some, if not all Christian nations joined together, will put an end
to the piratical system of these inhuman barharians.

Note. — The result of the late war has had the effect of com-
manding respect from all nations ; of which the treatmeut of
the United States frigate Macedonian, captain Warrington, by
the Spaniards at Carthagena, (S. A.) from whence she lately
arrived, is an instance ; for they released the prisoners de-
manded without hesitation.

* Lord Exmouth narrowly escaped being assassinated while,
on shore at Algiers.

COMMERCIAL TREATY".

Whereas a convention between the United States of Amer-
ica and his Britannic Majesty, to regulate the commerce be-
tween the territories of the United States and of his Britannic
Majesty, was signed, at London on the third day of July, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, by plenipoten-
tiaries respectively appointed for that purpose, which conven-
tion is in the words following, to wit :

A CONVENTION,

To regulate tht Commerce between the territories of the United
States and of his Britannic Majesty.

The United States of America and his Britannic Majesty,
being desirous, by a convention, to regulate the commerce
and navigation between their respective countries, territories,
and people, in such a manner as to render the same recipro-
cally beneficial and satisfactory, have respectively named ple-
nipotentiaries and given them full powers to treat of and con-
clude such convention — that is to say: the President of the
United States, by and with the advice and consent of th« Se-
nate thereof, hath appointed for their plenipotentiaries John
Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and Albert Gallatin, citizens of the
United States ; and his Royal highness the Prince Regent,
acting in the name and on behalf of his majesty, has named
for his plenipotentiaries the right hon. Frederick John Robin-
son, vice-president of the committee of privy council for trade
and plantations, joint paymaster of his majesty's ibrccs, and
a member of the Imperial Parliament, Henry Goulburn, esq.
a member of the Imperial Parliament, and under secretary of
state, and William Adams, esq. doctor of civil laws ; and the
said plenipotentiaries having mutually produced and shown
their said full powers, aud exchanged copies of the same, have
agreed on aud concluded the following articles, videlicet :

art i. There shall be between the Territories of the United
States of America and all the Territories of His Britannic Ma-
jesty in Europe a reciprocal liberty of Commerce. The in-
habitants of the two countries respectively shall have liberty
freely and securely to come with their ships and cargoes to ajl
such places, ports aud rivers in the Territories aforesaid to
which other foreigners are permitted to come, to enter into tht)
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same, and to remain and reside in any parts of the said Terri-
tories respectively, also to hire and occupy houses and ware-
houses for the purposes of their commerce ; and generally the
merchants and traders of each nation respectively shall enjoy
the most complete protection and security for their commerce,
but subject always to the Laws and Statues of the two countries
respectively.

art. ii. No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the
importation into the United States of any articles, the growth,
produce or manufacture of His Britannic Majesty's Territories
in Europe, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on
the importation into the Territories of His Britannic Majesty
in Europe of any articles the growth, produce or manufacture
of the United States, than are or shall be payable on the like
articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other
foreign country, nor shall any higher or other duties or charges
be imposed in either of the two countries, on the exportation
of anj articles to the United States or to His Britannic Ma-
jesty's Territories in Europe, respectively, than such as are
payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other
foreign country, nor shall any prohibition be imposed ou the
importation of any articles, the growth, produce, or manufac-
ture of the United States, or of His Britannic. Majesty's Ter-
ritories in Europe, to or from the said territories of his Britan-
nic Majesty in Europe, or to or from the said United States,
which shall not equally extend to all other nations.

No higher or other duties or charges shall be imposed in any
of the ports of the United States on British vessels, than those
payable in the same ports by vessels of the United States ; nor
in the ports of any of His Britannic Majesty's Territories in
Europe on the vessels of the United States, than shall be pay-
able in the same ports on British vessels.

The same duties shall be paid on the importation into the
United States of any articles the growth, produce or manufac-
ture of His Britanic Majesty's Territories in Europe, whether
such importation shall be in vessels of the United States or in
British vessels, and the same duties shall be paid on the impor-
tation into the ports of any of his Britannic Majesty's Terri-
tories in Europe of any article the growth, produce or manu-
facture of the United States, whether such importation shall be
in British vessels or in vessels of the United States.

The same duties shall be paid and the same bounties allowed
on the exportation of any articles, the growth, produce or ma-
nufacture of his Britannic Majesty's territories in Eupore t&the

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United States, whether such exportation shall be iu vessels of
the United States or in British vessels; and the same duties
shall be paid and the same bounties allowed, on the exporta-
tion of any articles, the growth, produce or manufacture of
the United States to his Britannic Majesty's territories in Eu-
rope, whether such exportation shall be in Birtish vessels or in
vessels of the United States.

It is further agreed, that in all cases where drawbacks are or
may be allowed upon the re-exportation of any goods, the growth,
produce or manufacture of either country, respectively, the
amount of the said drawbacks shall be the same, whether the
said goods shall have been originally imported in a British or
American vessel ; but when such re-exportation shall take
place from the United States in a British vessel, or from the
territories of his Britannic Majesty in Europe in an American
vessel, to any other foreign nation, the two contracting parties
reserve to themselves, respectively, the right of regulating or
diminishing, in such case, the amount of the said drawback.

The intercourse between the United Slates and his Britan-
nic Majesty's possessions in the West Indies, and on the con-
tinent of North America, shall not be affected by any of the
provisions of this article, but each party shall remain in the
complete possession of its rights, with respect to such an in*
tercourse.

art. in. His Britannic Majesty agrees that the vessels of the
United States of America shall be admitted, and hospitably re-
ceived, at the principal settlements of the British dominions in
the East-Indies, vide-Iicet, Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, and
Prince of Wales' Island, and that the citizens of the said
United States may freely carry on trade between the said prin-
cipal settlements and the said U. States in all articles of which
the importation and exportation, respectively, to aiul from the
said territories, shall not be entirely prohibited : provided, only,
that it shall not be lawful for them in any time of war, Between
the British government and any state or power whatever, to ex-
port from the said territories, without the special permission of
the British government, any military stores, or naval stores, or
rice. The citizens of the U. States shall pay for their vessels*
when admitted, no higher or other duty or charge than shall be
payable on the vessels of the most favoured European nations,
and they shall pay no higher or other duties or charges on the
importation or exportation of the cargoes of the said vessels*
than shall he payable on the same articles when imported or
exported in the vessels of the most favoured European nations*

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But it is expressly agreed, that the vessels of the United
States shall not cany any articles from the said principal settle-
ments to any port or place, except to some port or place in
the United States of America, where the same shall be unladen.

It is also understood, that the permission granted by this
article, is not to extend to allow the vessels of the United
States to carry on auy part of the coasting trade of the said
British territories, but the vessels of the United States having,
in the first instance, proceeded to one of the said principal
settlements of the British dominions in the East-Indies, and
then going with their original cargoes, or part thereof, from one
of the said principal settlements to another, shall not be con-
sidered as carrying on the coasting trade. The vessels of the
United States may also touch for refreshment, but not for
commerce, in the course of their voyage to or from the British
territories in India, or to or from the dominions of the Emperor
of China, at the Gape of Good Hope, the Island of St. Helena,
or such other places as may be in the possession of Great Bri-
tain, in the African or Indian seas, it being well understood that
in all that regards this article, the citizens of the Uuited States
shall be subject, in all respects, to the iaws and regulations of
the British government, from time to time established.

art. iv. It shall be free, for each of the two contracting par-
tics, respectively, to appoint Consuls, for the protection of trade,
to reside in the dominions and territories of the other party, but
before any consul shall act as such, he shall in the usual form
be approved and admitted by the government to which he is
sent, and it is hereby declared, that in case of illegal or im-
proper conduct towards the laws or government of the country
to which he is sent, such consul may either be punished accord-
ing to law, if the laws will reach the case, or be sent back, the
offended government assigning to the other the reasons for the
same.

It is hereby declared that either of the contracting parties,
may except from the resideuee of consuls such particular places
as such party shall judge fit to be so excepted.

art. v. This convention, when the same shall have been
duly ratified by the President of the United States, by and with
the advice and consent of their Senate, and by his Britannic
Majesty, and the respective ratifications mutually exchanged,
shall be binding and obligatory on the said United States and
his Majesty for four years from the date of its signature, and
the ratifications shall be exchanged in six months from this time,
or sooner if possible.

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Done at London this third day of July, in the year of out-
Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.
JOHN Q. ADAMS.
H. CLAY.

ALBERT GALLATIN.
FRED. J. ROBINSON.
HENRY GOULBURN.
WILLIAM ADAMS.

Now, therefore, be it known, that I, James Madison, Presi-
dent of the United States of America, having seen and consi-
dered the forgoing convention, have, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, accepted, ratified and confirmed the
same, and every clause and article thereof, subject to the ex-
ception contained in a declaration made by the authority of his
Britannic Majesty on the 24th day of November last.
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United
States to be hereunto affixed, and have signed the same
with my hand. Done at the city of Washington, this
twenty-second day of December, A D. one thousand
eight hundred and fifteen, and of the independence of
the United States the fortieth.

JAMES MADISON.
By the President.

JAMES MONROE,

Secretary of State.

DECATUR'S TREATY
WITH THE DEY OF ALGIERS.

JAMES MADISON,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

To all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting :

Whereas a Treaty of Peace aud Amity between the United
States of America, and His Highness Omar Bashaw, Dey of
Algiers, was concluded at Algiers on the thirtieth day of June
last, by Stephen Decatur and William Shaler, citizens of the
United States, on the part of the United States, and the said
Omar Basbaw, Dey of Algiers, and was duly signed and sealed

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by tlie said parties, which treaty is in the words following,

to wit :

Treaty of peace and amity concluded between the United States

of America and His Highness Omar Bashaw, Dey of

Algiers.

Article 1 . There shall be, from the conclusion of this treaty,
a firm, inviolable and universal peace and friendship between
the President and the Citizens of the United States of America,
on the one part, and the Dey and subjects of the Regency of
Algiers in Barbary on the other, made by the free consent of
both parties, on the terms of the most favoured nations : and if
either party shall hereafter grant to any other nation any par-
ticular favor or privilege in navigation or commerce, it shall
immediately become common to the other party, freely when
it is freely granted to such other nations ; but when the grant
is conditional, it shall be at the option of the coutracing parties
to accept, alter, or reject such condition, in such manner as
shall be most conducive, to their respective interests.

Article 2. It is distinctly understood between the contract-
ing parties, that no tribute, either as biennial presents, or un-
der any other form or name whatever, shall ever be required
by the Dey and Regency of Algiers from the United States of
America on any pretext whatever.

Article 3. The Dey of Algiers shall cause to be immedia-
tely delivered up to the American squadron, now off Algiers,
all the American citizens now in his possession, amounting to
ten, more or less ; and a!! the subjects of the Dey of Algiers
now in possession of the United States, amounting to five hun-
dred, more or less, shall be delivered up to him, the United
States, according to the usages of civilized nations, requiring no
ransom for the excess of prisoners in their favor.

Article 4. A just and full compensation shall be made by
the Dey of Algiers, to such citizens of the United States, as
have been captured and detained by Algerine cruisers, or who
have been forced to abandon their property in Algiers in viola-
tion of the twenty-second article of the treaty of peace and
amity, concluded between the United States and the Dey of
Algiers on the 5th of September 1795.

Audit is agreed between the contracting parties, that in lieu
of the above, the Dey of Algiers, shall cause to be delivered
forthwith into the bands of the American Consul, residing at
Algiers, the whole of a quantity of bales of cotton, left by the
late consul general of the United States, in the public Maga-
zines in Algiers, and that he shall pay unto the hands of the
said Consul the sum of tea thousand Spauish dollars*

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Article 5. If any goods belonging to any nation with tvliicli
*ither of the parties are at war, should be loaded on board
vessels belonging to the other party, they shall pass free and
unmolested, and no attempts shall be made to take or detain
them.

Article 6. If any citizens or subjects with their effects be-
longing to either party shall be found on board a prize vessel
taken from an enemy by the other party, such citizens or sub-
jects shall be liberated immediately, and in no case, on any
other pretence whatever shall any American citizen be kept
in capacity or confinement, or the property of any American
citizens found on board of any vessel belonging to any other
nation, with which Algiers may be at war, be detained from its
lawful owners after the exhibition of sufficient proofs of Ame-
rican citizenship and of American property by the consid of
the United States, residing at Algiers.

Article 7. Proper passports shall immediately be given to
the vessels of both the contracting parties, on condition that
the vessels of war, belonging to the regency of Algiers, on meet-
ing with merchant vessels belonging to the citizens of the
United States of America, shall not be permitted to visit them
with more than two persous besides the rowers ; these only
shall be permitted to go on board without first obtaining leave
from the commander of said vessel, who shall compare the pass-
port, and immediately permit said vessel to proceed on her
voyage ; and should any of the subjects of Algiers insult or mo-
lest the commander of any other person on board a vessel so
visited, or plunder any of the property contained in her, on
complaint being made by the consul of the United States re-
siding in Algiers, and on his producing sufficient proof to sub-
stantiate the fact, the commander or Kais of said Algerine ship
or vessel of war, as well as the offenders shall be punished in
the most exemplary manner.

All vessel of war, belonging to the United States of America,
on meeting a cruiser belonging to the regency of Algiers, on
having seen her passports and certificates from the consul of
the United States, residing in Algiers, shal! permit her to pro-
ceed ou her cruize unmolested, and without detention. No
passports shall be granted by cither party to any vessels, but
such as are absolutely the property of citizens or subjects of
the said contracting parties, on any pretence whatever.

Article 8. A citizen or subject of either of the contracting
parties, having bought a prize vessel condemned by the other
party, or by any other nation, the certificates of condemnation

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ud bill of sale shall be a sufficient passport for such vessel for
six months, which, considering the distance between the two
countries, is no more than a reasonable time for her to procure
proper passports.

Article 9. Vessels of either of the contracting parties put-
ting into the ports of the other, and having need of provisious
or other supplies, shall be furnished at the market price ; and
if any such vessel should so put in from a distance at sea, and
have occasion to repair, she shall be at liberty to land, and re-
embark her cargo, without paying any customs or duties what-
ever ; but in no case shall she be compelled to land her cargo.

Article 10. Should a vessel of either of the contracting par-
ties be cast on shore within the territories of the other, all pro-
per assistance shall be given to her crew ; no pillage shall be
allowed. The property shall remain at the disposal of the own-
ers, and if re-shipped on board of any vessel for exportation,
no customs or duties whatever shall be required to be paid
thereon, and the crew shall be protected and succoured, until
they can be sent to their own country.

Article 11. If a vessel of either of the contracting parties
shall be attacked by an enemy within cannon shot of the forts
of the other, she shall be protected as much as is possible. If
she be in port, she shall not be seized, or attacked, when it is
in the power of the other party to protect her ; and, when she
proceeds to sea, no enemy shall be permitted to pursue her
from the same port, within twenty-four hours after her depar-
ture.

Article 12. The commerce between the United States of
America and the Regency of Algiers, the protections to be
given to merchants, masters of vessels and seamen, the reci-
procal rights of establishing consuls in each country, and the
privileges, immunities and jurisdictions to be enjoyed by such
consuls, are declared to be on the same footing in every respect
with the most favored nations respectively.

Article 13. The consul of the United States of America
shall not be responsible lor the debts contracted by citizens of
his own nation, unless he previously gives written obligations so
to do.

Article 14. On a vessel or vessels of war, belonging" to the
United States, anchoring before the city of Algiers, the consul
is to inform the Dey of her arrival, when she shall receive the
salutes which are by treaty or custom given to the ships of war
of the most favored nations, on similar occasions, and which
shall be returned gun for gun ; and if, after such arrival, so an-
nounced, any Christians whatsoever, captives in Algiers, make

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their escape, and take refuge on board any of the ships of war,
they shall not be required back again, nor shall the consul of the
United States, or commanders of said ships, be required to pay
any thing lor the said Christians.

Article 15. As the government of the United States of
America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws,
religion or tranquillity of any nation ; and as the said states
have never entered into any voluntary war or act of hostility,
except in defence of their just rights on the high seas, it is de-
clared by the contracting parties, thai no pretext arising from
religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the har-
mony existing between the two nations; and the consuls and
agents of both nations shall have liberty to celebrate the rites
of their respective religions in their own houses.

The consuls respectively shall have liberty and personal se-
curity given them to travel within the territories of each other,
both by land and sea, and shall not be prevented from goiug on
board any vessels they may think proper to visit; they shall
likewise have the liberty to appoint their own drogoman and
broker.

Article 16. In case of any dispute arising from the violation
of any of the articles of this treaty, no appeal shall be made to
arms, nor shall war be declared on any pretext whatever ; but
if the consul residing at the place where the dispute shall hap-
pen, shall not be able to settl* the same, the government of
that country shall state their grievance in writing, and transmit
the same to the government of the other, and the period of
three mouths shall be allowed for answers to be returned,
during which time no act of hostility shall be permitted by ei-
ther party ; and in case the grievances are not redressed, and
a war should be the event, the consuls, and citizens and sub-
jects of both parties respectively, shall be permitted to era-
bark with their eflccts unmolested, oh board of what vessel or
vessels they shall think proper, reasonable time being allowed
for that purpose.

Article 17. If, in the course of events, a war should break
out between the two nations, the prisoners captured by either
party shall not be made slaves, they shall not be forced to. hard
labour, or other confinement than such as may be necessary to
secure their safe keeping, and shall be exchanged rank tor rank;
and it is agreed, that prisoners shall be exchanged in twelve
months after their capture, and the exchange may be effected
by any private individual legally authorised by either of the
parties.

Article 18. If any of the Barbary states, or other powers af
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war with the United States, shall capture any American res-
sel, and send into any port of the Regency of Algiers, they
shall not be permitted to sell her, but shall be forced to depart
the port, on procuring the requisite supplies of provisions ;
but the vessels of war of the United States, with any prizes they
may capture from their enemies, shall have liberty to frequent
the port of Algiers, for refreshments of any kind, and to sell
such prizes in the said ports, without any other customs or du-
ties than such as are customary on ordinary commercial impor-
tations.

Article 19. If any of the citizens of the United States, or
any persons under their protection, shall have any disputes
with each other, the consul shall decide between the parties ,
and whenever the consul shall require any aid or assistance from
the government of Algiers to enforce his decisions, it shall be
immediately granted to him ; and if any disputes shall arise be-
tween any citizens of the United States and the citizens or
subjects of any other nation having a consul or agent in Algiers,
such disputes shall be settled by the consuls or agents of the
respective nations ; and any disputes or suits at law that may
take place between any citizens of the United States and the
subjects of the Regency of Algiers, shall be decided by the
Dey in person, and no other.

^Article 20. If a citizen of the United States should kill,
wound, or strike a subject of Algiers, or on the contrary, a sub-
ject of Algiers should kill, wound, or strike a citizen of the
United States, the law of the country shall take place, and equal
justice shall be rendered, the consul assisting at the trial ; but
the sentence of punishment again.-. t an American citizen shall
not be greater, or more severe, than it would be against a Turk
in the same predicament ; and if any delinquent should make
bis escape, the consul shall not be responsible for him in any
manner whatever. /

Article 21 . The consul of the United States of America
shall not be required to pay any customs or duties whatever on
any thing he imports from a foreign country for the use of his
house and family.

Article 22. Should any of the citizens of the United States
of America die within the limits of the Regency of Algiers, the
Dey and his subjects shall not interfere with the property of the
deceased, but it shall be under the immediate direction of the
consul, unless otherwise disposed of by will. Should there be
no consul, the effects shall be deposited in the hands of some
person worthy of trust, until the party shall appear who has a
rigbt_ to demand them, when they shall render an account of

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the property ; neither shall the Dey or his subjects give hin-
drance in the execution of any will that may appear.

Now therefore be it known, That I, JAMES MADISON,
President of the United States of America, having seen and con-
sidered the said Treaty, have, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate, accepted, ratified and confirmed the same,
and every clause and article thereof.

In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the Uni-
ted States to be hereunto affixed, and have signed the
\l. s.) same with my hand. Done at the city of Washington-
this twenty-sixth day of December, A. D. one thou-
sand eight hundred and fifteen, and of the IndepeH*
dence of the United States the fortieth.

JAMES MADISON.
By the Presideut,

JAMES MONROE, Secretary of State.

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT.

Between (he United States of America and the Creek
Nation.

JAMES MADISON,

President op the United States op America.

To all and singular to whom these presents shall come, Greeting :

WHEREAS certain articles of agreement and capitulation
were made and concluded on the ninth day of August, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, be-
tween Major General Andrew Jackson, in the name of the
President of the United States of America, for and in behalf of
the said United States, and the chiefs, deputies, and warriors,
of the Creek Nation ; and whereas the President having seen
and considered the same, and, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate of the United States, duly ratified and con-
firmed the said articles of agreement and capitulation, which
are in the words following to wit ••

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Articles of agreement and capitulation, made and concluded this
ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen,
between major general Andrew Jackson, on behalf of the Pre*
sident of the United States of America, and the chiefs, deputies,
and warriors of the Creek Nation.

WHEREAS an unprovoked, inhuman, and sanguinary war,
waged by the hostile Creeks against the United States, hath
been repelled, prosecuted and determined, successfully, on the
part of the said States, in conformity with principles of na-
tional justice and honorable warfare — And whereas conside-
ration is due to the rectitude of proceeding dictated by ins-
tructions relating to the re-establishment of peace : Be it re-
membered, that prior to the conquest of that part of the Creek
nation hostile to the United States, numberless aggressions
had been committed against the peace, the property, and the
lives of citizens of the United States, and those of the Creek
nation in amity with her, at the month of Duck river, Fort
Mimms, and elsewhere, contrary to national faith, and the
regard due to au article of the treaty concluded at New- York,
in the year seventeen hundred ninety, between the two na-
tions : That the United States, previously to the perpetration
of such outrages, did, in order to ensure future amity and con-
cord between the Creek nation and the said states, in confor-
mity with the stipulations of former treaties, fulfil, with punc-
tuality and good faith, her engagements to the said nation :
that more than two-thirds of the whole number of chiefs and
warriors of the Creek nation, disregarding the genuine spirit of
existing treaties, suffered themselves to be instigated to viola-
tions of their national honor, and the respect due to a part of
their own nation faithful to the United States and the prin-
ciples of humanity, by impostors denominating themselves Pro-
phets, and by the duplicity and misrepresentation of foreign
emissaries, whose governments are at war, open or understood,
with the United States. Wherefore,

First — The Uuited States demand an equivalent for all ex-
penses incurred in prosecuting the war to its termination, by
a cession of all the territory belonging to the Creek nation with-
in the territories of the United States, lying west, south, and
south-eastwardly, of a line to be run and described by persons
duly authorised and appointed by the President of the United
States — Beginning at a point on the eastern bank of the Coosa
river, where the south boundary line of the Cherokee natior

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crosses the same ; running from thence down the said Coosa
river with its eastern bank according to its various meanders
to a poiut one mile above the mouth of Cedar creek, at Fort
Williams, thence east two miles, thence south two miles, theuce
west to the eastern bank of the said Coosa river, thence down
the eastern bank thereof according to its various meanders to
a point opposite the upper end of the great falls, (called by the
natives Woetumka) thence east from a true meridian Hue to a
point due north of the mouth of Ofucshee, thence south by a
like meridian line to the month of Ofucshee on the south side
of the Tallapoosa river, thence up the same, according to its
various meanders, to a point where a direct course will cross
the same at the distance often miles from the month thereof,
theuce a direct line to the mouth of Summochico creek, which
empties into the Chatahouchie river on the east side therof be-
low the Eufaulau town, thence east from a true meridian line
to a point which shall intersect the line now dividing the lands
claimed by the said Creek nation from those claimed and own-
ed by the state of Georgia: Provided, nevertheless, that where
and possession of any chief or warrior of the Creek nation, who
shall have been friendly to the Unitad States during the war,
and taken an active part therein, shall he within the territory
ceded by these articles to the United States, every such person
shall be entitled to a reservation of land within the said terri-
tory of one mile square, to include his improvements as near
the centre thereof as may be, which shall insure to the said
chief or warrior, and his descendants, so long as he or they
shall continue to occupy the same, who shall be protected by
and subject to the laws of the United States ; but upon the vo-
luntary abandonment thereof, by such possessor or his descen-
dants, the right of occupancy or possession of said lands shall
devolve to the United Mates, and be identified with the right of
property ceded hereby.

Second -The United States will guarantee- to the Creek
nation, the integrity of all their territory eastwardly and north-
wardly of the said line to be run and described as mentioned in
the first article.

Third— The United States demand, that the Creek natiou
abandon all communciation, aud cease to hold any intercourse
with any British or Spanish post, garrison, or towns ; and that
they shall not admit among them, any ag;>nt or trader, who
ghall not derive authority to hold commercial, or other inter,
course with them, by license from the Presideut or authoris-
ed agent of the United States.

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Fourth — The United States demand an acknowledgment
of the right to establish military posts and trading houses, and
to open roads within the territory, guarranteed to the Creek
nation by the second article, and a right to the free navigation
of all its waters.

Fifth — The United States demand, that a surrender be im-
mediately made, of all the persons and property, taken from
the citizens of the United States, the friendly part oi the Creek
nation, the Cherokee, Chickesaw, and Choctaw nations, to the
respective owners : and the United States will cause to be im-
mediately restored to the formerly hostile Creeks, all the pro*
perty taken from them since their submission, either by the
United States, or by any Indian nation in amify with tne Uni-
ted States, together with all the prisoners taken from them
during the war.

Sixth — The United States demand the caption and surren-
der of all the prophets and instigators of the war, whether for-
eigners or natives, who have not submitted to the arms of th
United States, and become parties to these articles of capitula-
tion, if ever they shall be found within the territory guaranteed
to the Creek nation by the second article.

Seventh — The Creek nation being reduced to extreme waiits
and not at present having the means of subsistence, the United
States, from motives of humanity, will continue to furnish gra-
tuitously the necessaries of life, until the crops of corn can be
considered competent to yield the nation a supply, and will
establish trading bouses in the nation, at the discretion of the
President of the United States, and at such places as be shall
direct, to enable the nation, by industry and economy, to pro-
cure clothing.

Eighth — A permanent peace shall ensue from the date of
these presents forever, between the Creek nation and the Uni-
ted States, and between the Creek natiou and the Cherokee,
Chickesaw, and Choctaw nations.

Ninth — If in running east from the mouth of Summochico
creek, it shall so happen that the settlement of the Kennards,
fall within the lines of the territory hereby ceded, then, and in
that case, the line shall be run east in a true meridian to Kit-
^hofoonee creek, thence down the middle of said creek to its
junction with Flint River, immediately below the Oakraulgee
town, thence up the middle of Flint river to a point due east of
that at which the above line struck the Kitchofoonee creek,
thence east to the old line herein before mentioned, to wit : the
line dividing the lands claimed by the Creek nation, from those
claimed and owned by the state of Georgia.

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The parties to these presents, after due consideration for
themselves and their constituents, agree, to ratify and confirm
tile preceding articles, and constitute thein the basis of a per-
n;anet peace between the two nations ; and they do hereby
solemnly bind themselves, and all the parties concerned and
interested, to a faithful performance of every stipulation con-
tained therein, (n testimony whereof, they have hereunto in-
terchangeably set their hands and affixed their seals, the day
and date above written.

ANDREW JACKSON,
Maj. Gen. Commanding llh Military District .
Done at Fort Jackson, in presence of
CHARLES CASSEDY, Acting Secretary.
BENJ. HAWKINS. Agent for Indian Affairs.
RETURN J. MEIGS, A. C. Nation.
ROBERT BUTLER, Adjutant Gen. United States' Army.
J. C. WARREN, Assistant Agent for Indian Affairs.
Tustunnuggee X Thlucco, Speaker of the Upper Creeks l. s.
Tustunnngge X .Hoppoiee, Speaker of the Lower Creeks L.s.

(Signed by thirty-four other chiefs, omitted here.)
GEO. MAY FIELD.)

ALEX. CORNELS, } Public Interpreters.
GEO. LOVETT, >

Now, therefore, to the end that the said articles of agree-
ment and capitulation may be observed and performed with
good faith on the part of the United States, I, James Madison,
President of the United States of America aforesaid, have caus-
ed the premises to be made public, and do hereby enjoin and
require all persons bearing office, civil or military, within the
said United States, and all others, citizens or inhabitants
thereof, or being within the same ; faithfully to observe and
fulfil the said articles of agreement and capitulation, and eve-
ry clause and provision thereof.

In testimony whejieof, I have caused the seal of the
/ > United States to be affixed to these presents, and sign-
^ ' ed the same with rrry hand.

Done at the city of Washington, the sixteenth day
of February, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and fifteen, and of the sove-
reignty and independence of the United States
the thirty ninth.

JAMES MADISON.
By the President,

JAMES MONROE,

Acting Secretary of 9\jtfe,

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